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Died. Mrs. Evangeline Lodge Land Lindbergh, 78, schoolteacher mother of Charles A. Lindbergh, widow of onetime (1907-17) Minnesota Congressman Charles Augustus Lindbergh; after long illness; in Grosse Pointe Park, Mich...
...entertain such close friends as Broadway Producer George Abbott (who boards her ferocious bull terrier, Butcher Boy, because Harry Guggenheim will not allow him in the house), Lieut. General Jimmy Doolittle, Katharine Cornell and her husband Producer Guthrie McClintic, Publisher Bennett Cerf and his wife, Brigadier General Charles A. Lindbergh (who last time brought his own camping cot because he wanted to sleep outdoors), and occasionally, her attractive older sister Elinor, who once played in Max Reinhardt's The Miracle. With her guests Publisher Patterson rarely talks about herself, has a reporter's knack of drawing them...
...Military and Naval Staff Committee; in 1949 he was given the job of coordinating plans for the new academy. With an earnest but easygoing diplomacy, he whittled down the bewildering array of blueprints, picked an able committee of civilians and airmen (among them: Charles A. Lindbergh, General Carl Spaatz) to choose a site. Finally, in 1953, having retired to San Antonio, General Harmon was summoned back to help push the whole project through Congress...
...Lindbergh. "Oh, my, my," said the airport man. Minutes later Lindbergh took off to look over a 15,000-acre site offered free to the U.S. Air Force for its long-planned West Point of the air. Last week Air Secretary Harold Talbott, guided by Lindbergh's survey, announced his choice for the new U.S. Air Academy: the Colorado Springs tract...
...zoomed in New Jersey's political firmament as a Republican Congressman (1927-31) and governor (1935-37), then, fizzled like a spent skyrocket; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. With an ambitious eye on the Republican presidential nomination in 1936, Hoffman let his vision stray to the Lindbergh kidnaping case. Bruno Richard Hauptmann stood convicted of the crime, but Hoffman, insisting that he sought justice for Hauptmann and not publicity for himself, impoliticly tried to reopen the case. He died awaiting justice for himself, under suspension as New Jersey's employment-security director since last March, when...