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Charles A. Lindbergh has always been a fascinating blend of contradictions: mystic and mechanic, first hero of the machine age, world-traveling anchorite. As the aviation age that he inaugurated and helped to build fills the skies with metal and gases, he has become a passionate environmentalist, speaking round the world to promote conservation and speaking privately against production of the supersonic transport that he originally encouraged...
...only as a historian that Lindbergh displays a persistent and bewildering consistency. In the late '30s he argued constantly against U.S. involvement in the war against Hitler, a position that provoked charges of isolationism and antiSemitism. Now he has published The Wartime Journals of Charles A. Lindbergh (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; $12.95), 1,000 pages of the diary he kept from 1937 to 1945. In a letter quoted in the introduction, Lindbergh defends his original judgment that the U.S. should have stayed...
...elevator, the prince, one hand tucked jauntily in a pocket, paced David down the 898 steps. At the Lincoln Memorial, Charles stopped to talk to an English couple in a crowd, asked puckishly: "Do the Americans treat you well?" He was fascinated at the Smithsonian Institution by Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis, and mused, like thousands of nonroyal tourists before him: "That's strange -he just had that tiny window...
...press club with Tribune President John Cowles Jr., Executive Editor Bower Hawthorne and Managing Editor Wallace Allen. Cowles agreed that the paper needed more rapport with young readers, though he challenged one reporter's notion that Bob Dylan is as important to this generation as Charles Lindbergh was to his. Other results: follow-up discussions between top editors and individual staffers, and a questionnaire from Allen seeking details of specific complaints...
NAJEEB HALABY calls himself "a Lindbergh baby"?one of the countless youngsters who were so enthusiastic about Charles Lindbergh's flight to Paris in 1927 that they yearned for careers in aviation. The son of a Syrian father and an English mother, tall, dark "Jeeb" Halaby remembers that as a twelve-year-old in his native Dallas he turned out to cheer when Lindy came to town. Five years later, Halaby took his first plane ride in an OX 5 Travel Air and enrolled in a flying course. He borrowed $6,500 from his parents?...