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Tag Archives: Charles Lindbergh
Flight
Tonight I’m going to see my cousin Kerry in a new play that’s opening – called Flight. I blithered my excitement about it here. It’s about Charles and Anne Lindbergh. Kerry plays Anne, and Eric Stoltz plays Charles. The Lindberghs … Continue reading
The Books: “Gift From the Sea” (Anne Morrow Lindbergh)
Next book on the shelf for my Daily Book Excerpt: We’re still in Bookshelf # 3 – where I keep my oversized books, hardcovers, picture books … The following book is a classic in women’s literature. Practically required reading! It’s … Continue reading
Displacement
We measure heroes as we do ships, by their displacement. Colonel Lindbergh has displaced everything.. — Charles Evans Hughes, Secretary of State, responding to Lindbergh’s flight across the ocean
The Spirit of St. Louis
In line with this massive post I did on the Lindberghs – here’s something else. I love this story. It combines two of the Sheila obsessions: the Lindberghs, and Billy Wilder (who, of course, directed Jimmy Stewart in The Spirit … Continue reading
Lindberghs in Flight Again
I will be very interested to see Flight – the new play debuting here in New York in May. It’s a new play about Charles and Anne Lindbergh (and my cousin Kerry O’Malley will be playing Anne. Yee-haw, Kerry!) Eric … Continue reading
St.-Ex: “He is optimistic that man will come out on top of the machine”
August 5th, 1939 – from Anne Lindbergh’s journal – continued from this excerpt I go ahead with supper, talking about Russia and aviation … He talks about desert flying, the variety it had, in the sands. And I quote TE … Continue reading
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Anne Lindbergh on meeting St.-Ex: “That strange childish desire to give it all”
August 5th, 1939 – from Anne Lindbergh’s journal – continued from this excerpt [St.-Ex and I talked] of translations — the difficulties of: “There is a German poet I like very much, who excites me more than anyone I have … Continue reading
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“But man has always succeeded in rising again,” St.-Ex said.
August 5th, 1939 – from Anne Lindbergh’s journal We call Saint-Exupery. He is there, he speaks “pas un mot” of English. I have to talk to him. Heavens! What a prospect! Yes, he would be delighted to come out for … Continue reading
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Anne Lindbergh on St. Exupery: “I am rather afraid to meet him.”
Here’s my introduction to all of this. For those of you who are St.-Ex fans, or fans of flying, or fans of WRITING – the following excerpts from Anne Lindbergh’s journals are for you. August 4th 1939 C. [Ed: Charles … Continue reading
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The Meeting of St.-Exupery and the Lindberghs – an introduction
I have been wanting to post an entry from Anne Lindbergh’s journal (actually a couple entries) for a long time (especially since the recent revelations regarding St.-Ex’s plane.) The entry describes the first (and only) meeting between the Lindberghs and … Continue reading
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