Word: lindberghs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Latvian Flyer Herberts Cukurs took part in Latvia's freedom battles against the Bolsheviks from 1918 to 1920. Mr. Cukurs was like the American Lindbergh in aviation history. He built his own plane from one old motor of automobile. He was a great patriot all his lifetime, and it's hard to believe that he exterminated 30,000 Jews in Latvia...
...grand old birdman won a handsome new set of wings last week. Pan American World Airways announced that Charles A. Lindbergh, 63, has been elected to sit on its board of directors after 36 years as a technical consultant. The lanky Lone Eagle went to work for Pan Am just two years after he soloed from New York to Paris, and in the years since, he has evaluated every...
...Stand. Some death notices, like Miss Hopkins', mature along with their subjects. In St. Louis, the Post-Dispatch obituary on former Mayor Bernard Dickmann, now 76, has gathered dust for 30 years. The Chicago Tribune cast two galleys of type on Charles Lindbergh so long ago that no one on the staff remembers the obituary's vintage year. During a 1936 visit to San Francisco, George Bernard Shaw, then 79, was offered the chance to edit his own obit in the Chronicle. Shaw let it stand...
...source of threatening letters sent to her and signed "Agents of Moscow" Means was never tried for defrauding Mrs. Shepard; he had already been indicted for cheating Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean, owner of the Hope Diamond, of $104,000 for promising to return the kidnaped Lindbergh baby. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison, died after...
...Midsummer Night's Dream) and choral (War Requiem); Thomas J. Watson Jr., 50, chairman of International Business Machines Corp., elected president of the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America (he joined his first troop in Short Hills, N.J., on the day in 1927 that Lindbergh flew the Atlantic); Playwright Lillian Hellman, 58, and Artist Ben Shahn, 65, honored with gold medals by the National Institute of Arts and Letters...