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...reading public, aware of Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh's reaction to lurid publicity, may easily have guessed what his mental processes were when he saw advertised in last week's newspapers: "HOW LINDBERGH SMASHED THE CONSTANCE MORROW DEATH PLOT! . . . revealed ... in every true detail [in] True Detective Mysteries...
...dark story given out two years ago by newspapers: that Constance, youngest daughter of the Morrows, after receiving a threatening letter at Milton Academy, Mass., was stealthily whisked away and a decoy left in her place to trap the blackmailers (TIME, June 3, 1929). (No blackmailers were trapped.) Colonel Lindbergh flew Anne. Elisabeth. Constance and their mother to the Morrow summer home in Maine for a secluded visit, thence back to their Englewood, N. J. home where the newshawk army, unaware of all that had occurred, laid siege for news of the impending wedding. But the "plot...
Last fortnight Hearst editors looked dazedly first at a telegram, then at a photograph. The wire was from Publisher Hearst's secretary: "Some of the papers are printing trivial items relating to Lindbergh. ... As he has shown himself distinctly unfriendly, Chief cannot see any reason for helping any publicity efforts relating to him. . . . 'Trivialities are not news'." The picture, hot off the telephoto, an apparently exclusive shot by the Misses Selby and International News Photos showing Baby Charles Augustus ("Eaglet") Lindbergh, Mother Anne, Grandma Morrow and Great-Grandma Mrs. Charles Long Cutter. Fearfully the Hearst editors stalled...
...Alfonso but of Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain is George V. Last week His Britannic Majesty's Government abruptly deported from Liverpool two Spanish airmen-revolutionists: Captain Antonio Rexach and Lieut. Joaquin Collar. Both escaped from Spain when the attempted coup d'etat of Major Ramon Franco, "The Spanish Lindbergh," failed (TIME...
Babe Ruth. James Joseph Tunney, Henry Ford, Thomas Alva Edison, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Charles Spencer Chaplin would be named princes...