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Last week the world's most celebrated aviator delivered himself on the subject which most aviators consider the world's greatest joke. Wrote Charles Augustus Lindbergh in a letter which was read aloud by Clark University's President Wallace Walter Atwood at graduation ceremonies in Worcester, Mass.: "Clark University is taking part in a project which may have far-reaching effects on the future of civilization. For many years a member of the staff, Professor Robert Hutchings Goddard, has been experimenting with rockets...
...Colonel Lindbergh had not been consulted. He was immediately distressed because he feared, along with many another, that the event might prove a parallel to the dismal Dole race across the Pacific from California to Hawaii ten years ago in which six planes were lost (TIME, Aug. 22, 1927). Upon Lindbergh's protest, Minister Cot limited the race to multi-motored planes with radios and extended the start to any time in August. But protests continued to fulminate in the U. S., not only from such transatlantic experts as Dr. James Henry Kimball of the Weather Bureau, but from...
Fortnight ago, when Merrill flew the Atlantic both ways (TIME, May 17 & 24), Colonel John Monroe Johnson, Assistant Secretary of Commerce in charge of aeronautics, remarked that he disliked such "stunt flights." Last week, three days before the anniversary of Lindbergh's flight, Col. Johnson announced that the U. S. would not permit the anniversary race. Said he: "We are trying to encourage transatlantic flying, but we don't want to jeopardize it. ... The Commerce Department is charged with the duty of safety in the air and this race is a highly hazardous undertaking. There will...
Wrote Col. Lindbergh to his friend, Banker Thomas W. Lamont, who made the principal speech at a banquet in Manhattan on the anniversary: "I am embarrassed to think of you being asked to devote your time and energy to preparing a speech for the anniversary of my flight to Paris. I believe that the past should not be turned into an obligation for the future; and ceremonies for celebrating past events almost invariably become an obligation for those taking part in them...
Born. To Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh, 35; and Mrs. Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 29: a son, their third; in London...