Word: crew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...copilot was not in a DC-4. He was in a Constellation (which has a landing-gear lever where the DC-4 has its flap lever). Instead of the flaps coming up, the wheels came up. The Connie crashed seven feet, on to the runway. The crew and 26 passengers were unhurt. But the $750,000 Connie was damaged beyond repair. Contributing cause to the accident: a safety lock-designed to keep the landing gear from coming up when a plane is on the ground-did not work...
H.M.S. Flame, 18-gun brig, lies hove to near the French coast. "Insolent rascals, mutinous dogs," splutters the First Lord of the Admiralty, nursing his gout in Whitehall. Flame's crew have just sent word to London that they are tired of floggings and bad food. Unless their demands are met, they will desert to Napoleon...
...rainy Charles River saw a pre-view yesterday afternoon of the material Tom Bolles will have to work with next spring, when about 150 crew candidates took their eight-oared shells onto the water for the first time this term...
Assisting Harvey Love in coaching the Yardling crew this fall will be Jimmy Ducey, who coxed the last formal crew...
Among the men who checked into Newell Boat House since the beginning of the term are Stu Clark and Robert Stone both of whom were mainstays of the freshman crew in 1942. Another oarsman who has returned from the wars is Frank Cunningham, who rowed on the 150's in '42, but who is now holding down a slide in one of the heavy boats...