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Heroes at the luncheon included Sir Arthur Whitten Brown, first non-stop trans Atlantic aviator, who flew with the late Sir John Alcock from Newfoundland to Ireland eight years before Lindbergh; slightly grizzled Louis Bleriot, first to fly the English Channel, now a millionaire French planemaker; Squadron Leader Augustus H. Orlebar, holder of the world's speed record (357.7 m. p. h.); Flight Lieut. H. R. D. Waghorn, winner of the Schneider Cup (1929). Wingless heroes included Herbert Wilbur ("Bunny") Austin, British tennis player; Robert Cedric Sherriff, insurance broker, author of Journey's End; John L. Baird, inventor...
...called Lindbergh "swelled-headed . . . simple-minded . . . lucky" (TIME, June...
Lest any doubt remain in the minds of U. S. newspapermen just why it is that Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh disapproves of certain U. S. newspapers.* Editor Marlen Edwin Pew of Editor & Publisher (trade weekly) last week reported a talk which "I chanced to have . . . with the best-known, most-loved young man of this generation...
...dare assert," continued Editor Pew, that his [Lindbergh's] name and picture have been published in the press of the United States more times than that of any other individual in a similar period. I suppose his press linage throughout the universe is unequalled. Yet . . . everyone who has studied his nature has remarked his innate verecundity in personal relations...
...Lindbergh and wife denied pictures of their baby to New York American. Journal ("Hearst); News, Mirror. Graphic (Tabloids): described practices of such papers as "disgusting . . . contemptible ... a social drag . . . non-constructive ... a waste of time...