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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Engaged. Lieutenant Commander Herbert Victor ("Doc") Wiley, 43, longtime U. S. Navy airship officer, commander of the Macon when it crashed (TIME, Feb. 25), one of three survivors of the Akron disaster (TIME, April 10, 1933); and Charlotte Mayfield Weeden, San Francisco divorcee...
Once in the press of business Mr. Roosevelt knocked over his wastebasket, thought nothing of it. Two minutes before he was scheduled to press a telegraph key to open the new Cummings Highway over Tennessee's Lookout Mountain, "Doc" Smithers, White House telegrapher, went into the President's office to see whether everything was in order. It was not. The wastebasket had broken the telegraph wire. Hastily "Doc" Smithers crawled under the desk, held the broken ends of the wires together while the President, grinning, pressed...
...colors but their own. A trainer usually gets $100 per month for each horse in his stable, clear of all operating expenses; gets no additional salary for driving. Sunburned, grizzled, dressed in narrow whipcord trousers, low boots, high caps and light silk jackets, drivers like Fred Egan, Doc Parshall, Will Caton, Ben White, Leo Fleisch in last week's Hambletonian, are the best in the world. Caton, who won three years ago with The Marchioness, wore as usual, the silks of the Tsar of Russia whose horses he drove for years before...
...Otero put his sons in boarding school, but they ran away; he put them in St. Louis University, but they quickly got back to the hunting grounds that made them happy. Still a youngster, Miguel met Wild Bill, Bat Masterson, Mysterious Dave Mathers, Texas Jack, Buffalo Bill, Calamity Jane, Doc Holliday, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Pat Garrett, Clay Allison and dozens of the dance hall girls, known only by first names such as Liz,. Dolly, Steamboat, Trix, whom he was to recall pleasantly 60 years later...
...permits pilots of the planes in which he hops around the country to call him "Doc." But business intimates must use nothing more familiar than "Hoffman." Until a few years ago he never permitted Mrs. Hoffman, his five daughters and a son (who died last January) to call him anything except "Father." Lately he endures "Papa" from the grown "women, especially when they say, "Papa, here's a present for you." His six grandchildren dare to call him "Grandpa" and pull his beard...