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Pilot & Meteor. Last spring a TWA pilot over Texas had the thrill of observing a meteor in flight (TIME, April 3). Last week, also over Texas, an American Airways pilot had the even greater thrill of dodging a meteor. He was approaching Texarkana, said Pilot Hiram Sheridan, when a dazzling blue-white light attracted his attention. "I watched it for a minute or two," reported he, "and realized that it was coming straight at me. I changed my course and put on speed, but it looked like it would strike the plane in spite of all I could...
...familiar with the political situation in California in so far as the election of a United States Senator is concerned, but personally I know enough about California as a state to know that of course its voters will return Hiram Johnson to the Senate...
Harvard Club of Buffalo, Henry W. Holt '21, Secretary, 306 M. & T. Building, Buffalo, N.Y.; Harvard Association of Eastern New York, John R. Todd '20, Secretary, 158 State St., Albany, N.Y.; Harvard Club of Rochester, Hiram Sibley, Jr. '31, Secretary, 404 East Ave., Rochester, N.Y.; Harvard Club of Philadelphia, Maurice Hockscher '28, Secretary, 1617 Land Title Bldg., Philadelphia, Penn.; Harvard Club of Western Pennsylvania, Benjamin J. King '31, Secretary, 5816 Maeburn Rd., Pittsburgh, Penn.; Harvard Club of Washington, D.C., Ralph H. Hallett '04, Secretary, 1901 Wyoming Ave., NW., Washington...
...branch out for himself in Bernheim Distilling Co. and who last week shouldered forward by purchasing at government auction 24,000 cases of liquor seized on the high seas; Harry C. Hatch who had come down from Canada to build a huge distillery in Peoria, Ill. for his Hiram Walker-Gooderham & Worts; a Philadelphia gentleman by the name of Simon ("Si'') Neuman who was sure his Publicker Commercial Alcohol Co. could make 17-year-old whiskey in 24 hours. There were importers large & small, California wine growers, New York champagne men, distributors, restaurateurs, hotelmen, bootleggers. There were realtors...
...full of interesting and mysterious appeals, appointments and code messages. In the U. S. they are taken up almost exclusively by statements from husbands who will no longer be responsible for their wives' debts, eccentric job-hunters, Mexican divorce lawyers and, in Manhattan, the dismal efforts of one Hiram Mann to get himself elected to Congress on a platform of back pay for Brooklyn Navy Yard workers...