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...standard for journalistic hagiography was set in 1932 with the kidnaping and later killing of Charles Lindbergh's infant son. Lindbergh was already a bona fide hero, so the media concentrated on canonizing his family: the faithful and pregnant wife; the child who was "a golden-haired replica of his famous father"; Lindbergh's "visibly distraught" mother, who, despite her suffering, persisted in teaching chemistry at a high school in Detroit...
Since 1927, when TIME named Charles Lindbergh its first Man of the Year, the guiding principle has been to identify the person who, for better or for worse, has had the most impact on the year's events. And we stress: for better or for worse. The Man of the Year is not our version of the Nobel Peace Prize nor an attempt at canonization. It is a news judgment. Some subjects have been men of peace, like the Mahatma Gandhi (1930) and Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). Others have been evil, like Joseph Stalin (1939 and 1942) and Adolf...
...fortress mentality is taken literally at Lindbergh Junior High in Long Beach, Calif. After a bullet zinged past the head of gym teacher Joan Reedy last year, the school spent $160,000 to build a 10-ft. wall to separate the rear boundary from a housing project and its gang gunfights. Reedy, for one, is pleased: "Teaching here is so much more relaxed. It's given us a sense of safety, and you can feel the unity of the school growing and growing...
...most impressive of the new public buildings was the Olympic stadium in Berlin, and there Hitler welcomed the powerful and famous of other lands -- for example, the celebrated American aviator Charles Lindbergh -- to his refurbished capital. And despite the fuss over a black American, Jesse Owens, winning four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, the team that scored the most points overall was Nazi Germany...
After community leaders proved unable to cool the violence, school officials decided to bulletproof the school. Last week workmen began building a 10-ft.- high, 900-ft.-long concrete wall to shield Lindbergh from the housing project. Cost...