Word: lindberghs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Charles A. Lindbergh? Putnam, ($2.50). This book has been the subject of much gossip. At first, it was erroneously reputed to be an expansion of Colonel Lindbergh's signed articles in the New York Times. Its publication date was delayed nearly a month. Skeptics said that the author-aviator was having disagreements with his publishers...
...that "WE" is put, there is no doubt that it is original material from Colonel Lindbergh's own pen, that he took great pains and a reasonable length of time in writing it. It is an ungarnished autobiography, beginning with the sentence: "I was born in Detroit, Michigan, on February 4, 1902." Many a garrulous autobiographer might well follow Colonel Lindbergh's example of omitting the personal parsley...
...best chapters tell of the author's early barnstorming adventures. Over Billings, Mont., with a pilot named Lynch, he attempted to draw a crowd by doing some wing-walking, throwing overboard a dummy, go that spectators would think Wing-Walker Lindbergh had fallen to his death. "We returned to our field and waited expectantly for the curious ones to come 'rushing out for information, but two hours later, when a few Montanans did arrive, they told us about one of the other attractions?a fellow who dived from an airplane into the Yellowstone River which was about three feet deep...
Wisely, modestly, Colonel Lindbergh has devoted far more space to such events and to his training days at Army camps than to the deed which the U. S. has recorded on the same page with Washington crossing the Delaware and Peary reaching the Pole...
...book contains an emotional foreword by U. S. Ambassador to France Myron Timothy Herrick; and an account of the Lindbergh receptions in Europe and the U. S. (entitled "A Little of What the World Thought of Lindbergh") by Lieut. Commander Fitzhugh Green of the U. S. Navy, able journalist...