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Eastbound from Albuquerque, the Lindberghs sat down on the Texas plains near Amarillo to wait out a blinding sandstorm, slept in their plane, arrived in Kansas City next day to learn they were being nationally headlined as "missing." Col. Lindbergh: ''People shouldn't worry. It's liable to happen any time in the Western country...
...Kansas City Star, $500 for a series ''on national and international subjects ... an editorial educa- tional campaign which exerted wide influence in the Mississippi Valley." Best Reporting-to Francis A. Jamieson. New Jersey correspondent of The Associated Press, $1,000 for able coverage of the Lindbergh kidnapping story. Newshawk Jamieson was closely acquainted with New Jersey's Governor Arthur Harry Moore, an advantage which he wisely pressed and which led to his getting a half-hour "beat" on the story's climax- the discovery of Baby Lindbergh's body. Best Cartoon-to Harold Morton Talburt...
...year since he lost his first son Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh has kept himself intensely busy. Almost every day he drives into Manhattan from the home of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Dwight Morrow, in Englewood, N. J. where he and his wife and son Jon have been living. Several days a week he spends in the office of Pan American Airways, on the 42nd floor of Manhattan's Chanin Building, poring over blueprints, charts, tables, operations reports. He makes frequent trips to the Sikorsky plant at Bridgeport, Conn. and the Glenn L. Martin factory in Balti more...
Last week Colonel Lindbergh undertook his first extended flight in a year, taking his wife with him. In his big red Lockheed Vega monoplane they set out from New ark for a routine inspection of T. & W. A.'s route to the coast. To spare them selves annoyance they were more cordial than usual to newshawks and cameramen. Said the Colonel: "Well, I think the pictures you've been taking were terrible so I suppose it will be better to pose." At Pitts burgh luck was with the Lindberghs. Water in the fuel tank killed the engine...
...anyone knew-and disgruntled young men, smarting under the tyranny of I. A. & A., began to desert their posts and come to him by night. Soon he had a picked corps. Directors of I. A. & A. wanted no trouble with Knox, partly because of his fame (he was the Lindbergh-Edison-Einstein of his day) but mostly because they feared some threatening invention up his sleeve. Sure enough, Knox had discovered Motive Air: utilization of elements in the air itself to drive airplanes at a speed of over 1,000 m.p.h. In his carefully guarded laboratory he had built more...