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...Editrix Devereux has at her command such social barbs as "She appeared encased in that striking green dress which has graced so many previous occasions." Last week came a climax in Miss Dev- ereux's professional life. The daughter of the Enquirer's Editor William F. Wiley -her boss's daughter-was being married. Now her page, already a marvel of descriptive prose, must outdo itself. Marion Devereux rose splendidly to the occasion. For two-and-one-half columns she rhapsodized. Excerpts: "Last night the marriage of Miss Margaret Wiley and Mr. Campbell Dinsmore was an event...
...Bodensee between Berlin and Friedrichshafen with clocklike regularity and claims to have carried 100,000 passengers without a single casualty in ten years piloting. The U. S. Navy hired him in 1922 to help supervise construction of the Shenandoah and train its first crew. Lieut.-Commander Herbert V. Wiley, Akron survivor, was his pupil. When the Shenandoah broke from her moorings in a 70-mi, gale with 21 men aboard, it was Capt. Heinen who brought her back, damaged but whole. His contract expired in 1924 and he left Navy employ following bitter controversies with high officers over airship practice...
...agreed with Commander Wiley that a sudden down-current of air forced the Akron's tail into water, and that that broke the ship...
Commander Wiley, who had himself declared an "interested party'' (technical defendant ) in order to attend private hearings and examine witnesses, was firm in defense of Captain McCord's navigation. The weather forecast, he recalled, was for light wind and fog. When lightning was sighted below Philadelphia Captain McCord changed the course from south to northwest. Said Commander Wiley: "Although my own inclination was to go west, he had as much or more information than I and his judgment was just as good as mine. . . ." Later, however, when the ship was heading east at sea, Captain McCord told...
Commander Wiley then testified to a significant change of mind. The amazingly severe "gust" which had wrenched the Akron was not a gust at all, he decided, but the shock of the ship's stern striking the water. (He recalled that the "gust'' had blown no wind through the control car.) No second shock was felt. Hence the important deduction that the Akron had been broken not by wind but by water. However, Metalsmith Erwin still insisted that the ship was still flying tail in air when he saw the girders snap. When the tail...