Word: crew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What Nationality? Three days from Palestine the captain and his crew left the ship by small boat, fearing imprisonment if they were caught by the British coastal forces. A group of refugees took over. Late that night, behind a tattered canvas awning, a baby was born, the ninth on the voyage. The German doctor, one of three on board, whispered to the mother: "Wir können nicht sterben" (we cannot die). Two more babies would arrive before the ship reached its destination. The doctors wondered what nationality they could claim...
Staffers found him an enthusiast for elaborate planning. A handy man with a presentation chart, Logan added several fancy sidelines, e.g., a crew of picture-book specialists to create such books as Wallace Stegner's One Nation, the Look at America series...
Behind these men, a boatload or so of other talent makes seating on next spring's first boat unpredictable. Both Bob Stone and Stu Clark, from the '42 Freshman crew, are back from service and bidding strong for the Varsity. Frank Cunningham, once of the '42 150's, and Sam Davis, from the combination crew of the same year, were also on the river this fall...
...United States, redesigned by Harry Truman himself, flew at an unlikely place: the stubby mast of a Nazi submarine. The U-2513 was a U.S. prize from the surrendered German Navy, under study because of its revolutionary Schnorkel breathing device (TIME, Feb. 19, 1945). Now, with an all-American crew commanded by Lieut. Commander James Barr Casler, the U-boat was at Key West...
Tough Like Hell. The U.S. hoped to rush a helicopter and a crew across the Atlantic in time to be of service; it was ordered back from the Azores when word arrived that Swiss guides, Alpinists and planes had the situation well in hand. Swiss Army Private Marcel Etter, one of a party of 73 who made the tortuous ascent, told a TIME correspondent...