Word: crew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With no fuss or feathers, Pan American Airways sent one of its new 74-passenger Boeing Clippers across to England last week. Captained by big, blond Harold Edward Gray, carrying a crew of eleven and nine technical experts as passengers, the big 314 stopped at Horta in the Azores, then went on to Lisbon, Portugal. From there it was a straight shot across Fascist Spain to the next stop, Marseille, but Captain Gray headed north to Bordeaux, then swung across France to Marseille. Unfavorable winds, said he with a poker face, prevented the flight across Spain...
...wastebaskets and put them out with imitation champagne. Only permanent fixtures on the staff were Managing Editor Eric Hawkins (who, being an Englishman with a French wife, was adept at suppressing what the French wouldn't like and correcting the more objectionable misspellings of the native composing room crew); Sportswriter "Sparrow" Robertson (who sent his copy over from Harry's New York Bar), and Laurence Hills himself (who was a little aghast at it all, except when he added up the profits). The Herald's, legion of homesick readers gladly paid 5? to read its cabled news...
Thus, in the individual sports, the all-star team is the one which meets Yale, but team spirit will not be lost, in that the same award goes to the winning team as to the all-stars. (The team sports being football, basketball, hockey, baseball, crew, soccer, lacrosse, and rugby--the individual being swimming, track, wrestling, boxing, tennis, squash, fencing, and golf...
...rowing and track championships will not be decided until after the middle of May. May 27 is the big day on the spring calendar, because on that day the Harvard hardball winners journey to New Haven to tackle Yale's representative, and the Elis send their tennis and crew standard bearers to Cambridge...
Only four men were lost to the Varsity at graduation last year, leaving a considerable nucleus around which this year's crew can be built. But, the crew was robbed of a good deal of mileage in the early part of the season by the decidedly disagreeable weather that New England has had this spring. Whether the crew regained enough of this during the holidays is yet to be seen in the first race, against Rutgers and M.I. T. on Saturday the twenty-second...