Widespread during the past month has been this rumor: Charles Augustus ("Eaglet") Lindbergh Jr., 17-month-old son of the No. 1 U. S. hero, is deaf and so has not learned to talk. Cause of the affliction was supposed to have been the pre-natal drumming of airplane motors in his ears, causing a trauma, while his mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, continued to fly during her pregnancy.*
Last week no less a personage than Clinton Wallace Gilbert, Washington correspondent of the New York Evening Post, came forward for the Lindbergh child to deny this...
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