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...WILLIAM CORBETT'S LETTER [March 12] IF LINDBERGH IS NOT AN OUTSTANDING FLYER THE WRIGHT BROTHERS WERE WRONG AND CORBETT'S SECOND AND PARTICULARLY THIRD PARAGRAPHS FAIRLY REEK WITH GOOD TASTE. AMONG MY FRIENDS ALL HAVE A PASSING INTEREST AND LITTLE ADMIRATION FOR OUR PRESIDENT BUT THEY ARE ALL ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT COLONEL LINDBERGH. PERSONALITIES ARE STILL ODIOUS...
...wearing a grey suit without a vest, Col. Lindbergh strode in amid a thunder of applause. He shook hands with Chairman McKellar, sat down stiffly in a red leather chair, flipped through a copy of the bill, drummed his fingers on the table, smiled. Brisk and businesslike, the flyer identified himself as technical adviser to Transcontinental & Western Air and Pan American Airways, said he received a combined salary of $16,000 per year. Hunched forward in' his chair as the discussion veered this way and that for two hours, Col. Lindbergh: 1) Objected categorically to the bill as tantamount...
...clouds made him dizzy so he helped devise an instrument to prevent vertigo. When flying by instruments alone was scoffed at, he built a little black box full of indicators which not only made blind flying simple but two years ago led the Army to require it of every flyer in the service. Congress appropriated $1,000 to buy up his patent. But last week at Ft. Sam Houston, Major Ocker, oldest pilot in the Army in point of service, was summoned to appear before a court-martial. Charge: insubordination-by using improper language to a superior officer (96th Article...
...minded individuals might pick Italo Balbo, leader of Italy's mass flight to the World's Fair, as the year's outstanding airman. But the Federation Aeronautique Internationale hinted that it would make no award this year, having honored Flyer Balbo once before...
...Milan. Divorce Revealed. Lily Pons, 29, French operasinger; from August Mesritz, fiftyish, Dutch lawyer; in Paris. Retiring. Dr. William Holland Wilmer, 70, famed eye surgeon whose patients included Siam's King Prajadhipok, Charles Lindbergh, J. P. Morgan, Booth Tarkington, the late Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Sir Auckland Geddes, Flyer Jimmy Doolittle; as director of Johns Hopkins Hospital's Wilmer Institute of Ophthalmology; next July 1. Reason: retirement...