In the heat of the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, blasphemous city editors raved about the story as "the biggest since the Crucifixion." Last week the story headed the three lists of "biggest news stories of the year" prepared annually by Associated Press, United Press and Hearst's International News & Universal Service.
UP selections were made by Vice President Robert J. Bender; INS's by President Joseph V. Connolly, AP's by a canvass of 17 editors who unanimously put the Lindbergh story at the top. UP's Bender solemnly added the amendment that...
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