Word: lindberghism
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That quest for notoriety has fueled legions of false confessions to high-profile crimes. After Charles Lindbergh's infant was kidnapped and murdered in 1932, more than 200 people stepped up to say they were the culprit. Over the years, 500 or so have confessed to Hollywood's 1947 "Black Dahlia" slaying...
...PLOT AGAINST AMERICA PHILIP ROTH When Charles Lindbergh was elected President in 1940, it spelled trouble for the Roth family of Newark, N.J. The fictional President Lindbergh is an anti-Semite who appeases Hitler and casts the country into a dark, angry nightmare of riots and forced relocations, and the pressure divides Roth's family as well as the nation. This bizarro counterhistory isn't an allegory, and it makes no easy political points. It's cold, clear and frighteningly plausible...
DIED. Pelle Lindbergh, 26, last season's top goaltender in the National Hockey League, most valuable player for the Philadelphia Flyers and member of the 1980 Swedish Olympic hockey team; from severe brain and spinal-cord injuries suffered in an automobile accident; in Stratford, N.J. After celebrating a Flyers' victory at a bar with teammates, Lindbergh, legally drunk, hit a concrete wall on the way home in his Porsche. Said Flyers Coach Mike Keenan, after Lindbergh's family agreed to donate their son's organs for transplant: "It's appropriate. He died making one more save...
Late-night TV almost had its own Lindbergh baby. Authorities arrested a Montana man last week for allegedly plotting to abduct DAVID LETTERMAN'S 16-month-old son HARRY and Harry's nanny for $5 million ransom. KELLY FRANK, right, who worked as a painter on the Late Show host's isolated Rocky Mountain ranch, allegedly told an acquaintance that he had a key to Letterman's house and knew where the baby slept. That acquaintance alerted police, who charged Frank with felony solicitation. Letterman and his girlfriend Regina Lasko issued a statement calling themselves "forever grateful...
...quite unable to believe that the Press would be less free if some reasonable restraint were put upon its right to make instantaneous copy out of clues which are vital to the detection of a crime. . . . It is often said that hard cases do not make good law. The Lindbergh case is certainly a hard case...