Word: lindberghism
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...TIME erred (perhaps only slightly) in saying that Col. Lindbergh in his broadcast speech represented "everybody." Although this is of no interest to the Colonel (or to TIME, or posterity) I beg to say that he did not represent...
...always stirred alarming and delicious fears in settled souls whose timid question is "Why?" But Dr. Livingstone has been found (alive on the shore of Lake Tanganyika, in 1871, by Anglo-American Journalist Henry Morton Stanley), the Atlantic has been flown in a single-engine aircraft (by Lindbergh, in 1927), the polar regions have been explored (by an assortment of frauds and heroes), the world has been circumnavigated singlehanded (first by Joshua Slocum from 1895 to 1898), and all of the 14 mountains higher than 8,000 meters (26,400 ft.) have been climbed. Space is there to be rummaged...
...late 20s, the "Chameleon Man," as the media called him, the country; America was, after all, one big prosperous, happy-go-lucky speakeasy nation constantly seeking diversions, Zelig--like Lindbergh or the Lindbergh trial--helped satiate their leach-like needs. He toured on freak shows. He spurred a dance craze: the Chameleon rivalled the Charleston in popularity. He triggered a host of songs (Cole Porter once wrote "You're the tops, you're Leonard Zelig--except he couldn't find anything to rhyme with Zelig). Zelig paraphenalia--ashtrays, jewelry, and general knick-knacks--cropped up and sold briskly...
Rarely have school librarians seen so many children so eager to get at the encyclopedia. At Lindbergh School in Palisades Park, N.J., about 600 pupils a week read it. At Princeton High School in Princeton, N.J., 30 children a day use it. At Palisades Park High School, 15 students line up each weekday by 8 a.m. to get their chance to scan it. The object of all this excitement is the Academic American, an electronic encyclopedia...
Academic American, which has been used by schools since last September, has earned high marks from students. Says Jennifer Lombardi, 11, a sixth-grader at Lindbergh, "It's better than going to a book because it's easier to type into a keyboard than to flip through pages." Notes Adrian Treves, 14, a ninth-grader at Princeton High: "It's especially good for ancient history and English reports." Sums up Herbert Highfield, director of Princeton High's library: "If popularity indicates success, then this new encyclopedia is very successful indeed...