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LISTEN! THE WIND-Anne Morrow Lindbergh-Harcourt, Brace...
...world's most popular writer on aviation is Anne Morrow Lindbergh, whose North to the Orient has sold 250,000 copies in three years, has been translated into eight languages, and is still selling at the rate of 800 a month. The disarming candor of Mrs. Lindbergh's writing is probably the biggest reason for its popularity, since she combines technical discussions of flight with humdrum, housewifely confessions of her fears while flying. Listen! The Wind has the same engaging tone as North to the Orient, includes some vivid recollections of tense hours over the Atlantic which give...
...backhanded reference to the present "purge" in the Soviet fighting services (see col, 3), the eleven accusers wrote: "Soviet aviation, according to Lindbergh, has been left without leadership and is now in a condition of chaos. It is hardly necessary to deny such an obvious lie. . . . Lindbergh performed such a nonstop flight into the realm of calumny and slanderous fabrications that he at once beat all the records of Baron Munchausen. . . . For a long time he has not made any aviation records and as a flier he does not represent anything worth while. . . . The few flights which...
While the cables were flashing this from Moscow, Colonel Lindbergh was flying northward from Paris. He alighted in thick weather at Rotterdam, refused to comment...
Said Manhattan's good, grey Weather Chief Dr. James H. Kimball, the man who has kept a weather eye out for all transatlantic flying since Lindbergh: "In transatlantic flying there has never been as complete weather information available as that available here today." This was the cue for American Export Air Lines' energetic, Pan American-trained Vice President James Murchie Eaton to announce a new transatlantic air partnership-American Export Air Lines and Italy's Ala Littoria. There to confirm this news was suave Colonel Carlo Pezzani, adviser to the Balbo flight five years...