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Pershing, Charles Lindbergh and Admiral Byrd. Still standing as he rode, still smiling, he was driven through 37 miles of Manhattan's streets, amid phalanxes of screaming, red-lighted police motorcycles, behind prancing police horses...
Along Fifth Avenue and in the high canyons of the financial district, clerks threw cautionings and paper to the winds, sent 77 tons of ticker tape and torn wastepaper fluttering down. (The tonnage for Lindbergh: 1,800.) Harlem's Negroes yelled like Indians on the warpath. Thirty thousand schoolchildren shrilled along Central Park drives. Everywhere the sound of cheering erupted deafeningly (after setting up a "noise meter" the stunned General Electric Co. calculated that it equaled 3,000 thunderclaps...
Charles A. Lindbergh, abroad on a technical mission, made his sixth visit to Paris since the liberation, found it unlike the old days (1927). He reported: "I've been stopped on the street only once...
Died. Dr. John F. ("Jafsie") Condon, 84, go-between and No. 1 prosecution witness in the conviction of Bruno Richard Hauptmann in the Lindbergh kidnapping; of pneumonia; in The Bronx. After the trial, the retired schoolmaster sold his account of his experience for magazine serialization, advertised himself in Variety as "the most enigmatic, colorful, and widely publicized personality in America," planned a countrywide vaudeville tour, got only as far as Plainfield...
...Lindbergh of the Caravels. A successful Florentine businessman, and a famed astronomer and geographer, Vespucci did not become a sailor until he was 45. Then he proved himself a Lindbergh of the caravels, sailing to his destinations with cool calculations and almost without excitement. Where Columbus was visionary, gifted, brilliant and brave, Vespucci was industrious, modest, thorough. Readers of this scholarly new biography may feel that it was one of history's tragedies that Columbus and Vespucci did not sail together. Columbus was the great discoverer, but Vespucci sighted more new territory. He traversed 3,000 miles...