Word: lindberghism
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Since Colonel Lindbergh had offered no public explanation of his departure, and radiograms sent to him on the American Importer were returned with the notation "Addressee not aboard," the Times' story remained the scripture on which the week's exegesis was built. It was written by bespectacled Lauren D. ("Deac") Lyman, who as the Times' aviation editor befriended obscure young Aviator Lindbergh before his flight to Paris in 1927. Throughout the week Reporter Lyman stoutly refused to reveal the source of his scoop. But Colonel Lindbergh's hatred of certain sensational newspapers, and his corresponding affection...
...keeping with the Times' policy of protecting Hero Lindbergh's privacy, Reporter Lyman weakened his otherwise first-rate scoop by failing to disclose the time and place of the Lindberghs' sailing, their ship's name, their exact destination. But he did state flatly the following facts...
...Lindberghs had secretly obtained passports in Washington a week in advance, slipped away from the Morrow home in Englewood, N. J. with farewells only to the immediate family. The only passengers aboard their ship, they were now bound for England to establish a home which might be permanent. They had been driven to this decision by mounting threats to kidnap or kill Son Jon. They had chosen England because they believed the English to be the world's most law-abiding people. Their chief aim was to give Jon a normal childhood. Colonel Lindbergh, though he might become...
Expanding on reasons for the Lindberghs' move, Reporter Lyman reviewed the tide of threatening letters from cranks and crooks which had begun in 1927, ebbed & flowed as the Lindberghs were more or less prominent on the nation's front pages. Since the kidnapping of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., Federal, State and local police had guarded the Lindberghs unremittingly, traced some of the threats, made a few arrests. Still the famed family lived in fear. Gratified were they when threats died down as excitement over Bruno Richard Hauptmann's arrest and conviction diminished. Then came two deciding events...
While their editors groveled, reporters scurried around in search of news, added a few facts and a mass of apocrypha to the Times' scripture. By Monday afternoon it was revealed that the Lindberghs had sailed on the U. S. Lines' small American Importer, a cargo liner of 7,590 tons. Not even the ship's officers had known who their passengers were to be until Colonel Lindbergh marched into the captain's cabin with his familiar, "I am Charles Lindbergh." All arrangements had been made by a U. S. Lines vice president, who had thoughtfully...