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...BEHALF OF CAPTAIN WILEY, U. S. S. MACON AND MYSELF YOU ARE REQUESTED TO CORRECT YOUR ACCOUNT ABOUT RADIO COMPASS ON MACON IN TIME MARCH 25. MACON COMPASS ORIGINALLY DEVELOPED BY GERHARD FISHER RESEARCH ENGINEER FEDERAL TELEGRAPH CO., PALO ALTO. RADIO COMPASS WAS INSTALLED BY FISHER ON MACON AND DEVELOPMENT COMPLETED BY FISHER AND MACON PERSONNEL RESULTING IN RADIO COMPASS SUPERIOR TO ANY OTHER KIND. KRUESI HAS NO CONNECTION THIS FISHER RADIO COMPASS ON MACON...
Adolph Ochs's impulsive genius was responsible for his first successes. He held what he had gained by surrounding himself with able men, like Editor Rollo Ogden, and famed Managing Editor Carr Van Anda; like his Business Manager Louis Wiley, who died last month (TIME, April 1), and his own Son-in-Law Arthur Hays Sulzberger, who married his only child Iphigene. With Son-in-Law Sulzberger at the helm, the Times, in the words of its obituary, is a monument with "meaning enough for one life...
Last week, by reporting the honest concern of relief workers over the num-ber of relief babies, the United Press and the Associated Press caused a burst of fury among pious Catholics. Rev. Ignatius Wiley Cox, professor of ethics at Fordham University, was roused to the extent of threatening a boycott against newspapers which dared to hint that birth control might remedy the situation. Cried he: "Is it logical or even fitting for Catholic:parents to introduce into the sanctuary of the home newspapers which by their editorial policy, their news emphasis and news selection, and their columnists, aim repeated...
Wherever Louis Wiley went he made acquaintances by the score, friends by the dozen. He was passionately proud of his acquaintance with celebrities. Whoever saw him once, never forgot him. His ingratiating personality made a sharp first impression; his compelling personality made the impression permanent. Like many a self-made man, he paid his underlings meagrely, but his private philanthropies were supposed to be prodigious...
...Louis Wiley never married. He lived in quiet luxury in a huge Park Avenue apartment, attended by men servants. He got his greatest fun out of dancing. Asked what, aside from the Times he liked best, he once replied: "Beautiful and attractive young women...