Word: blue
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Using the same yardstick, Rusty Callow's boys from the Schuylkill should hand the Middies a tidy defeat. The Red and Blue walloped Yale two weeks back, yet the Elis recovered to beat the Middies by almost three lengths the following Saturday...
...word can describe the Light Blue's baseball fortunes so far this spring, it is "erratic." The Lions started off with a loss to Princeton and then snapped back with a win over Cornell, supposedly one of the EIBL powers. This game was followed by a loss to Brown, and then victory over highly-regarded Penn...
Columbia has had more than adequate pitching this season, mostly from Bob Swanson. However, Swanson worked the Yale and Dartmouth games, and Red Telefson will probably pitch today. The Blue's hitting has come in bursts--it had a big inning against Cornell and evidently had at least one yesterday. Otherwise, hitting has been one of Coach Andy Coakley's main worries...
...speedboat racer himself, Vincent once took such a battering from Gar Wood's backwash that he emerged from the cockpit of his boat black & blue, and groaned: "I'm through with this. I'll fly airplanes." Fly them he did until four years ago when he turned 65 and felt he "should depend . . . on the skill of someone else much younger." Packard is still depending on Vincent's skill. It set a postwar Packard record by selling 11,594 cars in March...
Back from the wild blue yonder, thousands of veterans jumped into the air transport business after the war. All they needed to set themselves up as irregular nonscheduled airlines was a little capital, some flying know-how, and one or more surplus planes, which the War Assets Administration was eager to sell them cheap. Some of them crashed, and some went broke. But about no nonscheduled lines have been doing well enough with cargo and air-coach services to throw a scare into the big, scheduled airlines...