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Borah stood for the Isolationist "peace bloc" who see only one means to stay out -retention of the embargo. Next night the nation listened to Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh (see p. 14) who represented nobody, yet everybody, in a simple monosyllabic address whose refrain was only: "Stay...
...Charles Lindbergh last spoke on the radio eight years ago, in Tokyo. Not even the chance to plead for the return of his kidnapped son in 1932 had brought him to a microphone since. The sudden break in his silence was a phenomenon of World War II (which he painstakingly refused to call a World War), an evidence of its great impact upon the U. S. It was also the end of his protective pretense that Charles Lindbergh is just a private citizen. By his act last week Hero Lindbergh deliberately undertook a spokesman's, if not a leader...
...idea was planted in his head last month by bumptious, able MBS Commentator Fulton Lewis Jr., who got Washington press galleries opened to radio reporters (TIME, May 8). At a small dinner party in Washington, Fulton Lewis heard Colonel Lindbergh on war in the world, peace in the U. S., and suggested that he broadcast his thoughts. On a Sunday afternoon three weeks later, Charles Lindbergh urgently telephoned Commentator Lewis, asked whether the offer of radio time was still good. It was, said Mr. Lewis. Hero Lindbergh then drafted a speech. His wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, writer of repute (Listen...
...aroused the interest of Silk Dealer George Wake in making better silk chutes. They incorporated just in time to get a 500-chute order from the U. S. Army, soon found a market when pilots began leaping from ailing planes into the Caterpillar Club (Star Member Charles A. Lindbergh; four emergency jumps...
...Morrow, is small, dainty and a poet. Nevertheless, during the World War she organized the first U. S. women's (relief) unit to go to France. When her late husband ran for the Senate from New Jersey she stumped the State for him. When her grandson, Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., was kidnapped and murdered, she was a tower of strength to her family's morale, later stood guard over Grandson Jon Morrow Lindbergh. Last week, at 66, dainty-sturdy Mrs. Morrow was chosen for another man-sized job: acting president of Smith College...