Word: crew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Otherwise the summer rowing hub was as quiet as Newell Boat House across the way, padlocked ever since the Varsity crew look off for New London after Commencement...
...movie people, all this was made to order. Eagle Lion had flown in a crew of 100, with Producer-Director Albert Rogell and Stars Joan Leslie, James Craig and Jack Oakie. Railroad Tycoon Robert Young, Eagle Lion's chief stockholder, had arranged for the ranch scenes to be made at the nearby showplace of his friend the Duke of Windsor. But Eagle Lion concentrated on the Stampede...
...night last week, while taking off from tiny Palmyra Atoll, 1,000 miles southwest of Hawaii, an Army C46 and its crew of six smashed into a reef. Radioman Buster Bailey, 19, reached for a fire extinguisher, found that he had no hand. He crawled from the burning plane into knee-deep water, stumbled and discovered that his right leg was gone, too. His fellow crewmen got him to shore and tied their belts around his bleeding stumps...
...interest of self-knowledge and with an approving nod from the Department of National Defense, Canada set out to look more closely at itself-particularly at the relatively unknown north. From Ottawa's Rockcliffe Airport, a Lancaster bomber, carrying cameras, thousands of feet of film and a crew of seven, took off for Churchill, in northern Manitoba. Other Royal Canadian Air Force detachments have been assigned to photograph Canada's uncharted wildernesses from the eastern slopes of the Rockies to the tundra wastes of the Northwest Territories...
...Henley-on-Thames, the crew of Jesus College, Cambridge, won the big event-the Grand Challenge Cup-in which no U.S. crew was entered. Another race, for the Thames Challenge Cup, went to a U.S. schoolboy crew from Connecticut's Kent School. Kent's brawny crew (average weight: 174 Ibs.), which brought along its own supply of peanut butter and cooking fats, won easily by two lengths from Massachusetts' Tabor Academy...