Odds, Ends

P: The photographs of the Lindberghs and their capsized plane in the Yangtze River (TIME, Oct. 12) which appeared in the U. S. press last week were sold by Col. Lindbergh to Wide World Photos (New York Times) in this fashion: When the mishap occurred alongside the aircraft carrier H.M.S. Hermes, some 50 sailors began snapping their cameras. Aware of Colonel Lindbergh's ideas on publicity, the commander of the Hermes offered to confiscate the films. Tactfully Colonel Lindbergh declined. Instead he agreed that the pictures be sold to one of the eager news services for $4,000, the proceeds to provide a bed for soldiers & sailors in the Shanghai Hospital. Only Col. Lindbergh's good friend the Times thought the pictures worth that sum. The money was paid; the Lindbergh-Hermes Memorial Bed made possible.

P: Twenty-five years ago Cleveland Rodgers went to work for the respected Brooklyn Daily Eagle as a linotype operator. Last week he was made editor, succeeding Dr. Arthur Millidge Howe who took the title editor emeritus. Dr. Howe, a cultured Canadian gentleman who walks with a painful limp, served the Eagle for 38 years. In 1915 he succeeded the late famed Dr. St. Clair McKelway as editor, made a creditable but unspectacular record. Dr. Howe will continue to write Eagle editorials at his home. Editor Rodgers, sober & industrious, has a good editor's capacity for indignation. He is well known for his books on Walt Whitman, who edited the Eagle 1846-48.

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