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ceremony like a puppet, wearing a perpetual expression of bewilderment. He seemed to be wondering why everybody was making such a fuss about him; all he had done was what he had been accustomed to doing daily as a mail pilot���taking off from his point of departure and landing as planned at his point of destination. The press, which had started out by calling him the Flying Fool, had now shifted to Lucky Lindy. It was wrong both times, but as we watched him receive the accolades like a wideeyed adolescent, we found it dif���cult to believe that he had achieved his exploit on purpose. That was the impression, and it was completely wrong. He may have seemed helpless as he was guided through the unfamiliar political and social world, manipulated, apparently, by men more sophisticated, and more selfseeking, than himself, but in his own milieu he was complete master of his profession. His exploit was not the result of luck, it was the result of shrewd analysis of the factors making for failure or success, of unerring judgments in ���nding the best answers to the problems presented him, of courage in accepting the risk of applying those solutions, and of minute preparation for his ���ight. Eight or ten of us found that out when we sat down with him at a lunch of the AngloAmerican Press Association of Paris. It was a different Lindbergh who had come to eat with us, no longer the bewildered boy who had been promenaded helplessly through meaningless ceremonies, but a technician who knew precisely what he had done and why he had done it. Herrick was not with him. The Ryan representative was, but he hardly HYLAND 20