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Back and forth they swept, between Los Angeles and San Diego. Every so often the Question Mark took on fuel. This required uncanny air jockeying. Only, 15 feet directly above the Question Mark flew a fuelling plane piloted by Capt. R. G. Hoyt or Lieut. Odas Moon. From this plane dangled a thin rubber hose. While the planes zoomed at 75 miles an hour Lieut. Harry Halverson aboard the Question Mark reached out, grabbed the hose, thrust it into the tanks. Once there was bungling. Gasoline was spilt. Major Carl Spatz, the commander, was burned. Lieut. Elwood Quesada was overcome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Question Mark | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

...Score--M. I. T. 29, Harvard 23. Goals from floor--Allen 5. Lawson 3, Nelson, Upton 3, Farrell 2, Wenner 2, Burns. Goals from fouls--Allen 4, Brockelman 3, Lawson 2, Nelson 2, Farrell 2, Wenner 2, Upton 2, O'Connell. Timekeeper--Backus, M. I. T. Umpire--Hobbs. Referee--Hoyt, M. I. T. Time--two 20-minute periods...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FAST FINISH CARRIES M.I.T. FIVE TO VICTORY | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

...special committee composed of Juniors has been appointed for the purpose of taking charge of the poll and of counting the votes. This committee is headed by A. G. Churchill and includes John Cross, R. R. Forrester, C. E. Galston, J. R. Graham, Barrett Hoyt, Kendrick Kerna, W. P. Lage, A. B. Martin, H. P. Minis, J. R. Smith, C. M. Underhill, John Ward, and S. C. Wheelock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1929 VOTES IN FINAL CHOICE OF OFFICERS | 12/11/1928 | See Source »

...World Series having been finished and the fame of Yankee Pitcher Waite Hoyt having been augmented, Mr. Hoyt has hibernated with profit into vaudeville. He has a fair baritone voice and his father, Ad Hoyt, used to be a minstrel player; so he was not labeled "a freak" (i.e., one who capitalizes on his fame in an alien line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Records: Oct. 29, 1928 | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

Also last week Hero Lindbergh was taken for a ride above Hempstead Harbor, Long Island, in a Loening amphibian plane piloted by Miss Eleanor Hoyt, 16-year-old daughter of Broker Richard R. Hoyt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Diver & Dancer | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

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