Word: lindberghism
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...Years has made his appearance on the first issue of the New Year ever since 1927, when TIME first bestowed the title on Charles A. Lindbergh. The merits of our choice are frequently the subject of long and hot debate among readers and even among our own staff. Adding to the discussion about this year's highly controversial Man are certain to be some arguments centering on the cover itself. In his mock-heroic caricature, Artist David Levine depicted the President as King Lear, harassed by two vexatious members of his family, Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Congressman Wilbur...
...Shore. For the Ballroom's affable host, the recorded performers always came alive. "Great job, Benny," Block would applaud. "You never sounded better." The make-believe began in 1935 at New York's WNEW when Block's boss told him to pad news bulletins from the Lindbergh kidnap trial with music. After that, it was all music, and he spun his records for New York stations almost until his death...
Died. William Hawley Bowlus, 71, pioneer glider pilot and the man responsible for building Charles A. Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis, who started making sailplanes as a teen-ager in 1910, after World War I joined Plane Builder T. Claude Ryan as plant superintendent in charge of constructing the Spirit, later taught both Lindy and his wife Anne the art of soaring; of a heart attack; in Long Beach, Calif...
...215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "The Deep Frontier" examines the tools and methods man is using to investigate ocean depths. Taking part are Jacques Yves Cousteau, Jon Lindbergh and Scott Carpenter. Repeat...
...course there are plenty of post-Lindbergh improvements along the way. Whether a pilot takes the northern route or one of the less volatile southern routes (New York-Gander-Azores-Lisbon or New York-Bermuda-Azores-Lisbon), he can get essentially the same map and weather-chart information that airline pilots have. Beyond that, there are radar checks on his progress all along the route, chiefly from nine ocean vessels on station that send out radio beacons. Canadian officials refused for years to allow single-engine planes to begin transoceanic flights from their airfields because the ensuing air-sea rescue...