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Charles Lindbergh strove so valiantly to dodge the public eye and hand, that he attained the very Nth degree of the conspicuousness he honestly sought to evade. Surely there is food there for those who think in terms of publicity. He would not talk, he would not parade, he would not be photographed, he would not be interviewed, he would not meet the public, he would not smile, he would do nothing but timidly dodge every form of publicity. And it brought him infinitely more publicity than if he had deliberately sought the limelight.

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He could have hired a publicity riran, ridden-in parades, given countlcss interviews, signed testimonials, written for the papers and magazinps, gone on the stage, and into the movies-and he never would have secured one-half the conspicuousness that his chosen and directly opposite method has brought him. If he had only known-there is a middle route that would have brought him nearer the

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simple position that his heart desired. He could have accepted the inevitable attention of the nation in a MODERATE way; allowed himself to be banqueted, viewed and interviewed; accepted it all quietly and genially; and then gone about the business of living, dodging no one, hiding nowhere, just being his nice, quiet, loveable self ; settled down somewhere in a friendly neighborhood; conducted his everyday affairs in everyday fashion; and what a difference there would be in his condition and position today. He would years ago have lost every vestige of conspicuousness. flis neighbors would wave at him, as at other men, blow horns at him, as at other men; shout "fore" at him, as at other men; his children could play in his front yard, like those of the rest of the neighborhood. And perhaps now and then a neighbor might point him out to someone and say, "There's that fellow Lindbergh-you remember, don't you? He flew across the Atlantic alone one time." And that would be all.