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...begins Canadian Timothy Findley's fourth and most peculiar novel. In Ragtime style. Famous Last Words assembles a vivid cast of historical personages, among them the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Lana Turner, Ernest Hemingway and Charles Lindbergh. But here the famous names do not move to syncopated jazz; instead the work resounds with tainted anthems...
...first television appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show, 15 years ago-is a veteran of 65 Tonight show appearances. The shirt is an $85 white voile Beck & Sobel number (18-in. collar, 33½-m. sleeve). Shrugs Rodney: "They'll probably use the shirt to clean Lindbergh's plane." Now Lindbergh, there was a fellow who got respect...
Playing on the junior varsity--any junior varsity--is a new experience for Olson, who was an all-Minnesota defenseman at Hopkins Lindbergh High in Minnetonka. And even though he's enjoying himself with the jayvees, the idea is to return to the ECAC wars as soon as possible--hopefully, early January...
DIED. Waiter Hinton, 92, co-pilot and last survivor of the six-man crew that flew the first plane across the Atlantic Ocean in 1919, eight years before Charles A. Lindbergh made the first solo flight; in Pompano Beach, Fla. Hinton was a Navy lieutenant on the NC4 (Navy-Curtiss) flying boat that crossed the Atlantic from Rockaway, N. Y., to Plymouth, England. As a civilian, Hinton later made the first flight between New York City and Rio de Janeiro...
...Charles Lindbergh, as a radio operator, co-pilot and navigator. But in 1932, after the death of their 20-month-old kidnaped son, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, now 75, gradually began to retreat from public life to a reclusive existence, publishing her diaries and letters. Last week, Baking a rare public I appearance, the widow of "Lucky Lindy" traveled to Washington to accept the Award for Achievement from the National Aviation Club. "Pilots of the '20s and '30s were a special breed," she recalled. "They wanted to expand life's possibilities to the limits, and their dreams...