Word: craning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...father, a Cambridge policeman all his life, once asked me, 'Why leave Cambridge when anything anyone could possibly ever want is right here?" Mayor Edward A. Crane '35, magna cum laude and senior Phi Beta Kappa, has followed this advice ever since. "I'm a native Cantabridgian, always will be. I was born on Center Street in 1914 and when I married, I finally moved--to the other end of the street...
...Crane, titular head of the city, chairman of the city council and school committee, attended local public schools and colleges. As soon as he completed Harvard Law School, he went into local politics. He has been there ever since, except for 40 months with the Army Intelligence while he gathered material from former prisoners of war for use in war crimes trials. "The extent of my overseas service was a boat trip from Boston to New York...
...present nine members of the city council, including Mayor Edward A Crane '35, are running again, along with 19 new candidates. Four of seven present school committeemen are in a field of ten. A University faculty member on the school committee. Robert Amory '36, professor of Law, will not run this year; he is at the Army's General Staff School in Texas...
...Albert Barnett, professor of New Testament at Atlanta's Emory University, insisted that the worst thing that anybody could say about McMichael is that he is a "naive, noble Christian." Said Dr. Henry Hitt Crane of Detroit's Central Methodist Church: "His is a crystal-clear Christianity which we must cherish. He is the one symbol on whom we can all agree. He is our flag. If you haul down this flag, you virtually capitulate the liberal cause in the Methodist Church...
...miles off Korea's west coast. British carrier planes fixed and photographed the position of the ditched fighter and a U.S. helicopter dropped a marking buoy. A British 1,600-ton frigate, a South Korean motor launch and a U.S. Navy shallow-draft landing craft equipped with a crane moved in through treacherous sand bars to retrieve the prize, while a cruiser and carrier planes stood by to ward off enemy interference. Darkness and high tide interrupted the operation and the allied craft had to stay on the spot all night. Next morning they got the MIG on board...