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...Charles Lindbergh a reckless flyer who should have been grounded for his own good? Or was he a skilled pilot who prevailed, with a bit of his famed luck, over the hazards of poor aircraft and sloppy maintenance of the 1920s? These questions are raised in an intriguing exchange of letters between Lindy and William P. MacCracken Jr., the first head of the Commerce Department's former aeronautics branch. The letters, written in 1968, have only recently been disclosed by MacCracken's widow (he died in 1969 and Lindbergh...
...worst came in the 1920s, though, when post publisher Ned McLean was found to have lied to a Senate committee to help cover up a bribe that his friend, Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall, and accepted in the Teapot Dome scandal. From then on The Post went downhill, and McLean went bankrupt. The paper was sold at auction in 1933--and when none of its reporters even bothered to cover the sale, The Post ran an Associated Press account the next...
...sockets. Java man, discovered by a Dutch doctor who found a skullcap, or cranium, in 1891 and a thighbone in 1892, was obviously an even earlier, less evolved specimen than Neanderthal. Teeth, a nearly complete skullcap and bone fragments discovered in a cave at Choukoutien, China, during the 1920s established the existence of yet another early ancester, Peking man.* These discoveries helped to convince the remaining skeptics that the earlier finds were not the remains of a freak ape or a deformed human. The ancient, erect-walking creatures had apparently been plentiful and widely distributed; it now seemed indisputable that...
DIED. Ellwood A. Geiges, 82, creator of hand signals used by football referees to indicate penalties; of a stroke; in Devon, Pa. While serving as a referee at a Syracuse-Cornell game in the late 1920s, Geiges was asked by a radio broadcaster to keep the press better informed. He improvised hand signals for offside, holding, illegal shift and time out, which were later adopted by all officials...
...Dracula's would-be bride for all of eternity, Ann Sachs is a delectably enticing houri in a negligee, or a slinky gown that might well pass for a negligee. Looking much like a vapid blonde flapper out of a 1920s perfume advertisement, she exudes a musk of sensuality that obviously makes Dracula yearn for more than blood. The rest of the cast is exemplary, and the sounds of baying offstage hounds are ear-tingling. But the show belongs first, last, and almost always to Gorey and Langella...