Word: lindberghs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Identity. A newsman who believed that anyone would tell anyone anything over a telephone, Reutlinger got the first interview with Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, who delivered the Dionne quintuplets, by calling long distance to Callandar, Ont. After the Lindbergh kidnaping, Reutlinger was the first newsman to reach Colonel Lindbergh in Hopewell, N.J.- by long distance telephone. But he persistently denied a rumor that he once posed as President Harding - over the phone, of course - to gain access to some information he wanted from the White House: "I believe in honest journalism," he said rather injuredly...
...case of a couple of bored hoods deciding to try that novel crime américain for a change of pace. Only a fortnight before, Paris-Presse had told them just how to go about it in a 16-part series dredging up every last detail of the Lindbergh case...
...last week, whose "horrible details lie in the decent exclusiveness of the court records." Clearly no ordinary criminal, Caryl Chessman, grade-school educated, had an IQ of 136, and he argued his own case creditably in court. Nonetheless, he was convicted by a jury under California's "Little Lindbergh Law" (which, like the federal "Lindbergh Law," makes kidnaping with bodily harm a capital offense) and sentenced to die. It was after he was condemned that he began stirring up his astonishing storm. He published three books, one of which, Cell 2455 Death Row, became a bestseller...