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...their places: > As Commander of the Pacific Fleet, a calm, frosty-faced, steel-blue-eyed Texan, one of the Navy's best strategists and administrators, Rear Admiral Chester William ("Cottonhead") Nimitz, 56, Chief of the Bureau of Navigation. To command until Nimitz arrived: Vice Admiral William Satterlee Pye, 61, Battle Force Commander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. At War, Shake-Up | 12/29/1941 | See Source »

Cadet Naval Aviator Staggs split his prize not two ways but five ways. He, Pound, J. D. Lamade, Joe Jaaps and W. S. Pye, all Navy men, had agreed that if any of them won the $100,000 he would share it with the others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 4, 1937 | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

...Portland, Me., Herbert L. Pye, 61, ashman, fell heir last week to $1,500,000. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Ashman | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...Herbert L. Pye, 16, saw a boat capsize in Casco Bay, a man floundering in the water, he dived in, rescued one George E. Rice of Manhattan. Thereafter, Rice and Pye were fast friends, correspondents. Forty-five years passed. Rice became a wealthy soap manufacturer. Several months ago he died. As proof of his repeated statement that he "never would forget the act" of Pye, he willed him his entire estate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Ashman | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

Newsgatherers searched for Ashman Pye, found him toting barrels of cinders from a cellar to his one-horse wagon. Said he to them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Ashman | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

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