Word: lindberghism
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...friend & collaborator Charles Augustus Lindbergh, whose island adjoins his off the coast of France, Dr. Alexis Carrel told a French newshawk: "I pray you, do not try to see him. Since the great misfortune and trial that befell him, Colonel Lindbergh has changed a great deal. He is hypersensitive and wants only quiet and to be forgotten. Do not harass him. He has suffered enough. Leave him alone...
Before a gaping gathering last week in Manhattan's City Hall, a tall young man who looks like Gary Cooper and flies like Lindbergh, fumbled with some sheets of paper, nervous not because he had just circled the world in 3 days, 19 hr. 8 min. 10 sec., but because he had made but one previous speech in his life. "There is one thing about this flight that I would like everyone to know," he blurted at last. "It was in no way a stunt. It was the carrying out of a careful plan, and it functioned because...
...Hughes was thus modestly dismissing had been a flight so precisely steered that it extended only 20 miles more than the direct course planned around the top of the world, although almost every mile of it was flown by instruments, often against fiercely adverse weather conditions. Halved had been Lindbergh's 33½-hour time to Paris, halved the late great Wiley Post's solo dash around the world five years earlier...
Averaging 218 miles an hour Pilot Hughes flew the Lindbergh route as it never had been flown before. When Manhattan went to bed he was veering off Newfoundland. When it rose for breakfast he was over Ireland. Before lunch the radio reported him in at Le Bourget Field, 3,641 miles away in Paris, 16 hours, 35 minutes after his takeoff, more than twice as fast as Lindbergh's time, 33 hours, 30 minutes...
...Turrou, 42, had been in the Bureau for nine years. Russian-born, an able linguist, he served in the Marines after the War and with Herbert Hoover's relief mission in Russia. In the Lindbergh Case, he helped dig up the ransom money in Hauptmann's garage, wangled samples of Hauptmann's handwriting to match with the ransom notes. When the dirigible Akron was abuilding, he grew a beard and became a laborer to detect sabotage. For his work on a white slave ring in Connecticut (40 convictions), he was advanced to the highest pay bracket...