Word: lindberghism
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...course, consciously set out to defy that admonition. One of the remote results was this leviathan of a volume. Roosevelt literature is reaching Talmudic proportions, and the prospective reader is entitled to be skeptical. But Kenneth S. Davis is a skillful journalist, novelist, historian and biographer (Eisenhower, Stevenson, Lindbergh). What is more important, he has something...
...years since Charles Lindbergh appeared on TIME's cover as the first Man of the Year, the annual search for his successors has been eagerly joined by our readers. Among the hundreds of letters that arrived this month in behalf of the man or woman who most changed the year's news, whether for good or ill, were votes for Washington Redskins Coach George Allen, Feminist Gloria Steinem and former Beatle John Lennon...
While astronauts, scientists and religious leaders have all succeeded Lindbergh through the years, those with the most impact on news have usually been the world's - and America's - political leaders. Franklin Roosevelt was selected three times; Presidents Truman, Eisenhower and Johnson twice. During the past twelve months, few people have so dominated the air waves and newsprint as have Richard Nixon, last year's choice, and Presidential Adviser Henry Kissinger...
...West Coast applicants and increase scholarship funds, but most of Mr. Emmett's life remains for me a foggy past from which surprising facts occasionally emerge. (At one point, for instance, when we were talking about private airplanes, she said. "I rode in a private airplane once--with Mr. Lindbergh...
GEORGE KAUFMAN and John Marquand became friends in 1943 when they collaborated on a stage version for Marquand's Pulitzer Prize winning novel. The Late George Apley. Writing and friendship had gone easily until one Saturday morning Mrs. Charles Lindbergh, wife of the allegedly pro-Nazi flying hero, telephoned for Mrs. Marquand at the Kaufman's country home. "Adelaide." Beatrice Kaufman told her when everyone was gathered in the living room, "while you were asleep this morning. Mrs. Lindbergh telephoned you here." Adelaide said that she would ring her back. "You may call her back if you wish." Mrs. Kaufman...