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As one title on a cinema screen slowly fades out and another title slowly takes its place, so with the beginning of this week the name Lindbergh was gradually vanishing from the black, multi-column newspaper headlines, the name Byrd was gradually appearing in its stead. The man who had flown to Paris was being succeeded by the man who was planning to fly to Paris. Street-sweepers had cleared away the fragments of the telephone books that fluttered in shreds about Colonel Lindbergh in Manhattan. Street-sweepers were clearing away the petals of the roses...
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