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University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, May 20, 1964
"Spirit of Lindbergh" Lingers On
It was thirty-seven years ago today that Capt. Charles A. Lindbergh walked out into the mist of a chilly morning and took a car to Curtiss field, New York, where his plane, the Spirit of St. Louis, waited for him in the hangar.
It was 3 o'clock in the morning when he arrived at the hangar, and the light rain soon turned into a downpour. The slim boyish-looking 25 year old flyer noting the weather, said, "If this keeps up it's all off for today, I guess."
While he was watching mechanics check his plane a telephone call from the International Wireless company brought the good news that skies were clear over Nova Scotia and there was a light easterly wind.
Lindbergh, then an unknown aviator, was preparing to take off in a bid for the $25,000 prize posted by Raymond Orteig, New York hotel owner, for a non-stop flight from New York to Paris.
After his plane had been thoroughly inspected by mechanics it was towed by truck from Curtiss field to nearby Roosevelt field and fueled for the long flight.
"I'll see you in Paris," said Commander Richard Byrd, wishing the young flyer good luck.
"When I get into the cockpit," answered Lindbergh slowly, "it is like getting into a death chamber and if I get out in Paris it will be like a pardon from the governor."
When he took off at 7:15 eastern daylight-saving time, the 448 gallons of gasoline in the tanks made his ship so heavy that the young man narrowly avoided a crash at the start of his long flight.
From that time on the progress of his flight was reported in bulllets from cities and ships along his route, just as were the recent flights of astronauts John Glenn, Walter Schirra and Gus Grissom.
About $ 33_{1/2} $ hours later, a silver monoplane shot out of the darkness over Le Bourget field, the Paris
airport, and headed into a circle for landing without faltering once in direction.
Charles Lindbergh retired to rest after the exhaustion of his long ordeal at the controls of his ship, and awoke some hours later to discover that "the entire world knew him. After being made a Knight of the Legion of Honor by the French President, and acquiring undying popularity because of the unassuming manner and friendly smile, Lindbergh returned to the United States by boat to be given the greatest ovation ever accorded a hero up to that time.
"Lindbergh's real test," said Roger W. Babson, financial expert who urged President Coolidge to appoint the young flier head of aviation, "was not in crossing the Atlantic, but will come when he has to choose between the fabulous offers of movies and vaudeville concerns and a much smaller salary in constructive work."
So You Still Want to Smoke
"I wanna buy a pack of cigarettes." "You wanna what?" "I wanna buy a pack of cigarettes!" "Why?"
"Why! Because I want to, that's why. Don't you sell cigarettes here?"
"Yeah, we sell them, but don't you ever read?"
**why.** Don't you sell cigarettes here? "Yeah, we sell them, but don't
"No, I'm going to college to rest up from high school."
"Don't you know that smoking causes cancer?"
"What are you, a refugee from the Surgeon General's office?"
"Look, they've proved smoking causes cancer, right"
"So what! I like to smoke, right now I'm out of cigarettes, and if you don't mind, could I have a pack."
"No, you'll have to pay for them." "That sounds like a sporting proposition."
"No, just a statement of fact." "Okay."
"What kind."
"Well, they come in a red and white pack and they're toasted." "Why do you smoke those?"
"Well, I'll tell you. For one thing they're not filtered. For another, ever since I was a little kid I've always had this thing for toast. I grubtoast. Every morning for breakfast. I have a cigarette and toast. Smoking is like eating toast all day."
"You're kidding "You're right."
"You're kidding me."
"You're right."
"Okay, here you go." "Thank you."
"Thank you."
"You're welcome, and remember what I said about cancer."
"For you, anything. By the way,
do you have any matches?"
"Could I have some, no, wait a minute, I'll rephrase that. Could I buy some?"
Lindbergh successfully met all tests, remaining always kind, friendly, and unassuming, even after the brutal slaying of his young son seven years after the triumphal flight.
"No."
"You're welcome, anything for the Surgeon General."
"Thank you."
Lindbergh's flight in 1927 no longer seems so magnificent because of the strides made since that time, but the courage he showed in a time of doubt about the worth of airplanes for commercial use will cause him to retain a special place in the hearts of Americans.
Kay Cash, Fairview, Ohio, senior, Pi Beta Phi, to William F. Dawson, Kansas City, Mo., senior.
Carol Horseman, Shawnee Mission sophomore, Hashinger Hall, to Larry Geiger, Shawnee Mission sophomore, Joseph R. Pearson Hall.
Pinnings
Wilma Sue Slater, Holton sophomore, Miller Hall, to Thomas E Hood, Lotawana, Mo., junior, Stephenson Hall.
Judy Keller, Winfield sophomore,
Miller Hall, to Larry Hatetebeg,
Winfield sophomore at Wichita University.
Corrine Wilkes Hurt, Waynesboro, Va., junior at the University of North Carolina, to Nick T. Newberry, Jr., Omaha, Neb., senior, Theta Chi. The wedding date is August 22.
Connie Clendonon, Mission senior,
Gamma Phi Beta, to John Oakson,
Leawood senior, Alpha Tau Omega.
Mary Kay Morton, Leavenworth sophomore, Delta Delta Delta, to Richard Duwe, Lucas senior, Alpha Kappa Lambda.
Lee Bright, Genesco, Ill., freshman,
Kappa Alpha Theta, to Danny McCue,
St. Joseph, Mo., senior, Theta Chi.
Constance Tanis, Palos Park, Ill. sophomore, to Steven L. Butler, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, sophomore.
Twila Eaton, Dodge City sophomore, Gamma Phi Beta, to Darryl Wallace, Dodge City sophomore, Delta Upsilon.
Sandra Bornholt, LaCrosse senior,
Gamma Phi Beta, to Jay Cook, Webster Groves senior, Kappa Psi.
Marilyn Hahn, Leawood junior,
Gamma Phi Beta, to Sam Bruner,
Shawnee Mission senior, Phi Delta
Theta.
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