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May 23, 1928

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COL. LINDBERGH JOINS AIR-RAIL TRANSPORT AS CHIEF OF EXPERTS; Will Help Create Airplane-Train Service Between Here and Los Angeles. PLANS CHANGED SUDDENLY $5,000,000 Corporation Long Sought to Win Flier for Its Transcontinental System. ROUTE SELECTED BY HIM He Also Will Direct Choice of TriMotored Craft and Pick Fields and Equipment. Long Urged to Join Company. Lindbergh Flies Small Plane. LINDBERGH JOINS AIR-RAIL TRANSPORT Expected to Call Off Long Trips. Chicago to Be on Air Route.

By Unknown Author

Col Lindbergh becomes Chmn of Technical Com; rise in Curtiss and Wright stocks; Chicago will be included in future plans

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WILLIS MEN SPENT $60,000 IN OHIO RACE TO WIN OVER HOOVER; Outlay in Primary Equaled That for Secretary, Says Carmi Thompson. SENATORS GET NEW DATA Total Hoover Expenditures, Made and Anticipated, Now Put at $300,000. LOWDEN COSTS DETAILED Less Than $60,000 Paid Out, Buck Testifies--Ended Press Man's Mounting Bills. Hoover Expenses in Indiana. Willis Fund Balance $193. Will Submit Full Reports. Says Watson Forced Contest. Contributions to Zowden Fund. A Few W. H. Crawford Bills. Copeland Aid for Smith.

By Special to The New York Times

Expense rept of Willis forces in Ohio submitted by C Thompson; Lowden costs detailed

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Notable Births

Rosemary Clooney

1928Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (died 2002)[†]

Rosemary Clooney was an American singer and actress. She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the song "Come On-a My House", which was followed by other pop numbers such as "Botch-a-Me", "Mambo Italiano", "Tenderly", "Half as Much", "Hey There", "This Ole House", and "Sway". She also had success as a jazz vocalist. Clooney's career languished in the 1960s, partly because of problems related to bipolar disorder and drug addiction, but revived in 1977, when her White Christmas co-star Bing Crosby asked her to appear with him at a show marking his 50th anniversary in show business. She continued recording until her death in 2002.

Nigel Davenport

1928Nigel Davenport, English actor (died 2013)[†]

Arthur Nigel Davenport was an English stage, television and film actor, best known as the Duke of Norfolk and Lord Birkenhead in the Academy Award-winning films A Man for All Seasons and Chariots of Fire, respectively.

Nina Otkalenko

1928Nina Otkalenko, Russian runner (died 2015)[†]

Nina Grigoryevna Otkalenko was a Soviet middle-distance runner. She won a European title in the 800 m at the inaugural 1954 European Athletics Championships and set multiple world records in this event in 1951–54. She missed the 1952 and 1956 Olympics, where women's middle-distance events were not part of the program, and the 1960 Olympics due to an injury.