Word: captains
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Captain Hal Carey blasted two home runs at clutch moments for the Crimson and finished with four...
...manned by a doddering old scientist, an alcoholic sailor, a teenage reporter named Tintin and his cockerspaniel, Snowy. No need to stop the presses--it's only the premise for Destination Moon (1959), a Sputnik-era comic book by the Belgian illustrator Herge. Tintin and his two human companions, Captain Haddock and Professor Calculus, eventually touch the surface of the moon, romp about in orange space suits and endure who-knows-how-many plots to steal the spacecraft. While the plot summary may sound like standard comic book fare, the genius is in the details. In his evocation of crackpot...
...young newspaper journalist who travels about the world solving one scandalous affair after another (and manages to spend surprisingly zero time at the office). Opium smuggling in the Orient, counterfeiting schemes in Scotland and underwater treasuring hunting pose no problem for the resourceful Tintin. With the aid of Captain Haddock and pet dog Snowy, Tintin makes short work of the thugs and brings the ringleaders to justice...
...Crimson might face the Bulldogs without captain Ivy Wang, Harvard's top player...
...Crimson might face the Bulldogs without captain Ivy Wang, Harvard's top player. Wang sat out most of the season with a shoulder injury, but played in a few recent Ivy League matches before aggravating it again...