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...target in one of their back yards. They drank some New Jersey stuff and decided to go hunting deer. They sighted the Los Angeles. Merton Hankins wanted a ride. He waved his hands. He shouted. He jumped up and down. He turned capers. Lieutenant Commander Herbert V. Wiley of the Los Angeles paid no heed, so Merton Hankins fired his shotgun at the ship, he said, "just to attract attention...
...world demurs but TIME and old-TIMERS profit by the misthinks or mistakes. Let none therefore mistake me for a TIME naggler in correcting TIME'S adequate account of Manhattan's Architectural League Exhibition. The small mistake appears in TIME'S reference to "small" Harvey Wiley Corbett, noted for his tall self and tall towers. Lofty-spire-and-pediment-building Corbett stands well over six feet on the bare foot...
Manhattan Architect Harvey Wiley Corbett was Exposition Chairman. He is 55, small, white-haired, a native Californian. Both his father and mother were physicians. After being graduated from the University of California as a Mechanical Engineer, he studied Architecture at the Paris Beaux Arts and took medals in architecture, mathematics, modeling, free-hand drawing. He was the first foreign member of the London Architecture Club. In 1912 he formed a partnership with Frank J. Helmle of New York...
...Louis Wiley, business manager, has been with Mr. Ochs's Times since its beginning. Carr V. Van Anda was managing editor through the paper's Great War days. He still holds the title but is virtually retired, reputed to be enormously rich, chiefly from stock ownership in the paper. Frederick T. Birchall, long with the Times, is acting managing editor. David H. Joseph, city editor, up from Kentucky, has given nearly 20 years to the paper. Beginning as police reporter, he now commands some 250 pairs of eyes and ears...
Vice Admiral William Veazie Pratt, present Commander of the Battle Fleet, will replace Admiral Henry Ariosto Wiley as Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Fleet...