"Daddy"

Many an airman believes that Wing-Commander Charles Kingsford-Smith (California-to-Australia) is the world's No. 1 long-distance flyer; that he has never received full fame for his exploits. "To give Smith his rightful place in history," Liberty magazine last week published a collection of testimonials, solicited from 26 outstanding airmen by Aviation Writer Richard Carroll. Under the heading "They Call Him Daddy." appeared the pictures and comments of Atcherly, Byrd, Chamberlin, Cobham, Doolittle, Hawks, Rickenbacker, von Gronau, many another crack flyer--all lifting peans of superlative praise for Kingsford-Smith. Some, like "Al" Williams, called him the "outstand-ing pilot of the age." Others more conservative, like Germany's Herman Koehl, expressed their "greatest admiration." A conspicuous paragraph in the alphabetical list was that beneath the name and photograph of Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh. It read simply: "No answer." Observers reflected that Liberty might have gone out of its way to be kind to Col. Lindbergh by omitting all reference to him, by presenting its list merely as "those who did answer." But they also reflected that Liberty's publishers (Patterson & McCormick) also publish the Manhattan tabloid Daily News, against which Col. Lindbergh discriminated when he released first pictures of his baby (TIME, July 21).

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