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Charles Lindbergh — Part 9
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: Aa en Ai Service cadet in Lindbergh cracked ap four simes while Bying the $e. Lowi-Chi-
3, ‘Four in 1924, Io 1925 be cago maj)s io 1924. Above is showa bit wrecks? mail plane ocar
becatpe 2 barnscorming pilot. Seanfoed, LJ. But as a pilot, be carried 6,000 passcnger safcly
a o
Lindbergh, Chamberlin wod Byrd were al! He bad chis kicten as a mascoc bot did not take it
rowed for their camarlantic flights io May with bim on hia fight for che $25,000 prim
of 1927. Lindbergh wee the free wo get off. offered for frac New York-Paris mcamtop Si,
“He's moede ir," abricked 100,000 Frenchmes delirigus with excites when they saw the beetle
moooplane over Le Bourget 3315 hors after leaving New York. Ic was the grestcsc French demon-
su woon since the Armisyce. bec formations of the wings almosr brought bin down in the Adauitic.
2 : my 4a
Peria crowds cheered him ar U5. Finbsssy with Am- Louis Biri, the peoneor French
11 tamador Myron Hestick (right). U.S. dag few over 12 aviswoe abd the frac 30 fy ce
Chamber of Depotict, an honor reacted dor soventigia. Enghish channc), kissed Lindbergh.
= Pe =e *.
Boulogne is simple.
the Colonc! ro a pec.
and the children, Jor and Land, can play
famous expactiace lives nearby in an elaborate villa on the fashionable
. Boulevard Suchet and often takes his conscitutional in the Bors
eentmiward Windsor. But they tatcly mect. Sometimes chey see cach other
ata party of Ambassador Bullitt's—wheo Anne Lindbergh has Gnally
persuaded het husband eo ge. The taciturn Colonel does not dike the
high-powered social smile and manner of the Duchess of Windsor. In
fact he cares for very few people in thr !and of his adoption.
“Bill” Bullitt, brilliant Hose and already a legendary figure in the
French capical, likes Lindbergh and bas done everything in his power
ro get the Colane! out of himself, co give him aew people and new ideas.
Liadbergh just won't. Even che Embassy invitations are accepted only
if chere are ro be n0 othet people present. Or if the other guests arc to
be fliers or old friends. Ac such parties, Lindbergh sometimes blossoms
out. His cyes light up. He cajks enthusiasrically, like a schoalboy, on
aviation and bis scientife work with Dr. Carrel—nneil someons asks
bim a direct question, He doesn't like questions. He laughs nctvously
of Hoan The Mayor of Paris
LINDBERGH
WALKS ALONE
uy FREDERIC SONDERN JR.
—
——
was walking dejectedly, hands in bis pockers, thoulders stooped,
battered brown fedora pulled down over ove cyc. Now and then he
would stap to kick a pebble Jying on the path He would go on a way,
chin on his chest, stop again, and just stand. The Bois de Boulogne tn
Paris was blegk that day. The gauot winter braachcs of the trees made
acold background for this unbappy wanderer. It was Lindbetgh—so
recently America’s Hero No. 1, now a bitrer, s¢lf-exiled, cantankerous
“Tf you're looking for sensations," said a close friend of the Lind-
berghs to the writer, ‘‘you'll be disappointed. You will find a very
unhappy man and a very peculiar one. He has grown out of an uezerly
simple and naive boy who, uncquipped and temperamenzally unfiteed,
pto waters that he did oot understand and could aot learn
You will find that be bas done very little during the pasr
that his ‘great international inerigues’ have very lirtle
fact. And cime hangs very heavy on his hands.”
The Lindberghs have bus
went on the third floor of a modern white stone house near the Bois de
The neighborhood is quiet, and a shore walk rakes
Juded parr of the park where he can ramble in peace
< few antimate friends in Paris. Theit apart-
in safety and privacy. Another
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He waved French and American Bags from balcony of Fresch Aero Club « few days after
‘fight, at toore vant crowds Tosbed wooer the hero. The waa Bundt a Chevalier of the Legion
called on him, » distinction previously reserved for royalty.
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