Packet 8: Tossup 11

This person’s family sailed to England as the SS American Importer’s only passengers. A “perfusion pump” this person created (15[1])with Alexis Carrell allowed organs to survive outside the body. This husband of Anne Morrow spent more than sixty (15[2])hours awake (15[1])while performing an Orteig Prize-winning (15[1]-5[1])feat. (15[1])This (15[1]-5[1])first (-5[1])TIME (15[1]-5[2])Person of the (15[1])Year’s (15[1])Des Moines (15[1])speech asked (15[1])“Who Are (15[1])the War (15[1])Agitators?" (15[1])during (15[1])a 1941 (*) America First rally. (10[3])Bruno (10[2])Hauptmann (10[4])was executed (10[2])for the “Crime of (10[1])the Century,” (10[2])abducting (10[2])and killing (10[2])this (10[1])man’s (10[1])baby (10[3])son. (10[1])For 10 points, name this aviator (10[1])who flew from New York to Paris (10[1])in the Spirit of St. Louis. ■END■ (10[1]0[1])

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