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Literary Digest, Charles Lindbergh Issue, 1927Entry/Object ID
AM1989.1.570Scope and Content
Literary Digest, The 1927. This magazine was Vol. 93, No. 13.On the cover is a picture of Charles August Lindbergh, the American Eagle's Favorite Son. There is a picture of Colonel Lindbergh, President Coolidge and his wife after decorating him with the Distinguished Flying Cross. The president and Mrs. Coolidge are leading the applause.
The title of the article is "Why The World Makes Lindbergh Its Hero".
Editors and correspondents have exhausted superlatives in describing the enthusiasm first in Washington and then in New York. It was the kind of welcome, reserved for the super-hero and accorded once in a century or so. No such combination of honor, enthusiasm and administration has been preset on any other private citizen in our times, says the New York Sun. The Providence Journal even doubts if any man of any age in the world's history has ever been the recipient of such adulation and such honors as have been upon this youth of twenty-five in the last few weeks. When Lindbergh appeared on the historic thoroughfares of the nation's capital, says the Washing Post :
He was given the frenzied acclaim which comes from the depths of people. Women saw him the perfection of man, what they had conceived their husbands to be and what still constitutes their dream, and sought to take this man and embrace him. The men in turn experienced quick pulses of the heart and thought wistfully of things they might have done, things they would like to do, things they wished they had the nerve to do.
A picture of him was in the middle of the next page with the caption. "The Smile That Won New York". Colonel Lindberg as he told New Yorkers that the reception they were giving him dwarfed those he received at Paris, Brussels, London and Washington all rolled into one. The purpose of his flight was to advance aviation. Another picture shows the parade with a blizzard of 1,800 tons of paper in Broadway's frenzied canyons. It took 110 trucks and 2.000 white wings at a cost of $16,000, to clear the streets of the paper snow-storm showered from the windows of the sky-scrapers as Lindbergh rode in triumph through the city, says the Street Cleaning Commissioner. Lindbergh is seen in the foreground surrounded by mounted police to fend off overenthusiastic admirers. When Lindbergh returned to Paris in a British plane, Lindbergh was presented with the medal worn only by the members of the Lafayette Escadrille. He received the highest honors France, Belgium, and Great Britain could bestow--such tributes as no American private citizen has ever before received. Upon returning to Washington, President Collidge pinned upon his breast the Distinguished Flying Cross.Lexicon
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