"Lindbergh Does It! To Paris in 33 1/2 Hours; Flies 1,000 Miles Through Snow and Sleet; Cheering French Carry Him Off Field" Three months later my grandfather, Charles Lindy Pezzuti (who I later named 'Poppop' and the name stuck), was born and named after "Lucky Lindy", better known as Charles Lindbergh who had made his famous flight to Paris in the same year.