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November, 1985. Philadelphia Flyers goalie Pelle Lindbergh is killed in an automobile accident. He was drunk the night of his death...
...What might have been a waiting-room time killer becomes instead a lively parade of names and incidents: Muhammad using an early version of the toothbrush; Henry VIII granting a charter for dental surgery to barbers; Paul Revere providing dental fillings before proceeding to larger items of silverware; Charles Lindbergh posing with his grandfather, the inventor of the porcelain jacket crown. Seldom has dentistry been so educational. Never has it been so painless...
...waits for the sound of Big Ben, Minister of Munitions Winston Churchill finds his mind straying "back across the scarring years." A 16- year-old farm boy named Charles Lindbergh is free to buy a war-surplus "Flying Jenny." Wounded Ambulance Driver Ernest Hemingway, recalling a successful offensive in Italy, writes home: "Gee but it was great though to end it with such a victory!" Omar Bradley, a 25-year-old Army officer stuck at a post in Iowa, morosely hears the whistle blasts, certain that he is "professionally ruined." In the censorship section of the Liverpool post office...
...merger will end the independence of an airline that began in 1928 as a rail-and-air service whose first route was plotted by Charles Lindbergh. Owned briefly by General Motors in the 1930s, TWA fell into the hands of Howard Hughes in 1939. The eccentric tycoon initially fostered rapid growth but later nearly wrecked the company with indecisiveness. Hughes sold his stock in 1966. During the 1970s, TWA ventured heavily into the hotel and food-service business, which turned out to be far more profitable than the airline. Stockholders spun off the carrier as a separate company in February...
...year-old's fear of being torn from her home in some Solomonic decision. "I was afraid she would take me away," Gloria had testified, ". . . do something . . . then IT will happen." Here, Goldsmith theorizes, the girl was subtly conscious of the second most famous child of '30s headlines, the Lindbergh baby, who had been taken from his home and murdered: "IT," writes Goldsmith, "was death...