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Show Lindy Gives the Sailors a Thrill U. S. S. Memphis Colonel Charles Lindbergh gave the ship's crew a thrill by climbing out on a yard arm at the same height as the crow's nest when it was suddenly realized that the high-tension high-tension radio had not been cut off, as is customary when men are in the rigging. rig-ging. The aviator made his climb in the face of a forty-eight-mile wind, ascending as-cending to a height of 140 feet, without with-out saying anything to anybody, his object being to take photographs of the ship from aloft and its high speed wake. As soon as the officer of the watch discovered the aviator clinging to the rigging and getting his camera into position, orders were issued for cutting the high-tension radio off. |