Word: lindberghism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eleven years ago that Amarillo's big, bald, newspaper-publishing Gene Howe called Charles Augustus Lindbergh "swell-headed," "simple-minded," "lucky"; nine years ago when he made more front-page headlines by loudly proclaiming that Singer Mary Garden only had a "fair voice" and was "old, very old" and "almost tottered about the stage." Since then Amarillo's other famed asset, helium, has made far more national news, and Gene Howe, admitting that it was smarter to be polite, has settled down to making himself the Texas Panhandle's best friend...
Regarding your story, "Press v. Lindbergh" [TIME, June 19], I would like to add my own epitaph to a hero...
Being endowed with sufficient imagination to appreciate the courage and dignity with which Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh have attempted to conduct their lives, I cannot qualify as one of your mystified public in the "twelve long dark years of war between the U. S. people and their hero...
Decade ago Manhattan Publicity Counselor Harry Bruno attended an airmen's wine & dine shindig, cracked that he thought fliers were strong, silent, quiet birdmen. Result: "The Ancient & Secret Order of Quiet Birdmen," with such noted members as Charles Lindbergh, Roscoe Turner, the late Wiley Post. Qualifications: good flying, good fellowship. Chief function: convivial hell-raising...
...have just finished reading your article on Colonel Charles Lindbergh in TIME, June 19, and I want to tell you that I think it is one of the finest things you have done...