Comments on: The Troubles of an American Ideal

By: Frank James Davis

Frank James Davis — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 11:21:13 +0000

A surprisingly even-handed account of, in many ways, a tragic hero.

By: RUTH SEBER

RUTH SEBER — Fri, 21 May 2010 16:09:44 +0000

I am looking for info on a Post article written about the the flyer, Roy Allen, who was highlighted in the book by Thomas Childers in 2003, “In the Shadows of War: An American Pilot’s Odyssey Though Occupied France and the Camps of Nazi Germany”. I have just learned that the Post did an in-depth article on my Uncle Roy, after he returned safely to the states, that went into even more detail than the book did. I do not know when it was written but sometime after 1945. Any help in finding this article would be greatly appreciated both by me and my cousins. Thank you. Ruth

By: Ima Ryma

Ima Ryma — Mon, 17 May 2010 08:24:13 +0000

To fly from New York to Paree
Nonstop. It had never been done.
There was a lot of prize money
That would be paid to the first one.
Nineteen twenty seven in May,
From Long Island, he in his plane
Looked to the east and flew away.
His life never the same again,
As two days later there appeared
The Eiffel Tower and success.
He landed as the masses cheered
The hero that the skies did bless.

Charles Lindbergh flew many a flight.
One put him in the world limelight.