Word: lindberghism
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...done anything newsworthy enough to put his picture on TIME's cover, so somebody suggested we stop looking for a Man of the Week and pick a Man of the Year. This was an easy choice: Charles Augustus Lindbergh, who had soloed the Atlantic in only 33 hours and 39 minutes, was the hero...
Died. Dr. Alexis Carrel, 71, French master surgeon and scientific philosopher (Man the Unknown), 1912 Nobel Prize winner for suturing blood vessels and transplanting living organs, collaborator with Charles Lindbergh on the "mechanical heart''; of prolonged heart trouble; in France. Son of a Lyons silk merchant, chunky, bald, beret-wearing Carrel could reputedly thrust his thumb & index finger inside a matchbox, tie a catgut knot impossible to undo with two hands. In nearest-complete secrecy, he experimented in his black-toned, dustless Manhattan laboratories, later on isolated St. Gildas Isle off France. A wit, connoisseur, inspired but abstemious...
Charles Augustus Lindbergh arrived in Manhattan, alone but not unremarked by news photographers (see cut), on his way from the South Pacific to his recently rented house in Connecticut (TIME, Sept. 18), still looking like the shy Lone Eagle who, 17 years ago, was all the world's hero...
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, back from his tour of the South Pacific, rented an 18-room, brick and timber house in Greens Farms, Conn., a quiet section of Westport, convenient to the four United Aircraft Corp. plants where he works as a consulting engineer. The house, on 14 acres of land, faces a road, is only 200 yards from his nearest neighbor...
...Northampton, Mass., whose daughter, in 1662, married Josiah Dewey, great-great-great-great-great-grandfather of Candidate Dewey. The Lymans' son was the great-great-great-great-grandfather of Katharine Robbins Lyman, who married Warren Delano, maternal grandfather of the President. *When he left the U.S. in 1935, Lindbergh first rented an out-of-the-way 500-year-old house in Sevenoaks, Kent County, England, later bought the barren, out-of-the-way Breton isle of Illiec, lived there for six months near his great & good friend, Scientist Alexis Carrel, now reported held by the F.F.I, as an alleged...