Round 8: Tossup 11

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

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