Which tradition, whose first pick was Charles Lindbergh, began in 1927 with some magazine editors contemplating newsworthy stories during a slow week?
Time Person of the Year by the poll, but by the magazine's editors. Time Person of the Year Person of the Year (called Man of the Year or Woman of the Year until 1999) is an annual issue of the United States news magazine "Time" that features and profiles a person, a group, an idea, or an object that "for better or for worse... has done the most to influence the events of the year". The tradition of selecting a "Man of the Year" began in 1927, with "Time" editors contemplating the news makers of the years. The idea was also an attempt to remedy
Charles Lindbergh books for juvenile readers called the "[[Ted Scott Flying Stories]]" (1927–1943), which were written by a number of authors all using the "[[pen name|nom de plume]]" of [[Franklin W. Dixon]], in which the pilot hero was closely modeled after Lindbergh. Ted Scott duplicated the solo flight to Paris in the series' first volume, entitled "Over the Ocean to Paris" published in 1927. Another fictional literary reference to Lindbergh appears in the [[Agatha Christie]] book (1934) and movie "[[Murder on the Orient Express (1974 film)|Murder on the Orient Express]]" (1974) which begins with a fictionalized depiction of the [[Lindbergh baby kidnapping]].