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...U.S.S. Macon soared away from her Sunnyvale mooring mast on schedule early one morning last week to take her usual part in fleet maneuvers off the California coast. In command of the Navy's one & only dirigible and her 82 officers & men was Lieut. Commander Herbert Vincent ("Doc") Wiley. That grey-haired 43-year-old skipper, who looks a little like a youngish Herbert Hoover, was not feeling his usual cheery self. His father had died the week before...
Goals: Bokman 2, Lyons 4, Corey 2, O'Donnell 2, Vardack 2, Robinson 2, Marlow 2, Howe 2. ADAMS LEVERETT Saxton, r.f. l.f., Gutermuth Hale, l.f. r.f., Reed Silsby, c. c., Henkley Wiley, r.g. l.g., Hartman Lovejoy, l.g. r.g., Morin...
...ever been acclaimed by Reds. From Joseph Stalin down the Bolshevik hierarchy hobnobbed with "Bill." His bright-eyed little daughter was patted on the head, called "Russia's Delight." Soon the Ambassador was on horseback, teaching Bolsheviks to play polo. With experienced, hard-driving Counselor of Embassy John Wiley plugging at his side. Ambassador Bullitt stormed the Kremlin again & again on the issues of credits and debts. Some four months ago Ambassador Bullitt left Moscow by way of the Trans-Siberian Railway, flew extensively up & down China and arrived late last year in Washington where last week...
...both years included President Walter Cabot Baylies of Boston's Edison Electric Illuminating: $32,000; Vice President Theodore D. Crocker of Northern States Power: $17,000 (President Robert F. Pack received only $100 in director's fees); President Joseph A. Slattery of Philadelphia Brewing Co.: $24,000; Vice President Wiley F. Corl of San Jose Water Works: $32,000 (President H. S. Kittredge...
...first time Wiley Post flew Winnie Mae into the stratosphere last week he thought he climbed 48,000 ft. The second time, he thought he reached 55,000 ft. but had no way of telling because his altimeter froze at 35,000 ft. Not until the barographs used on the flights are checked will Pilot Post know whether he beat the world's airplane altitude record of 47,352 ft. held by Italy's Renato Donati. Because of the thin air and -70° temperature of the stratozone, Pilot Post had encased himself in a grotesque suit made...