Word: crew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George VI paced up & down the palace garden last week, waiting for a crew of cameramen who never showed up. George had agreed to pose for a colored movie to illustrate the national anthem in Britain's movie houses. On the appointed day all available color cameras were busy and nobody had bothered to tell the King, who eventually stomped back to the palace. TIME'S London Correspondent Alfred Wright last week cabled some other glimpses of George and his family...
...Chicago White Sox, stood on the shore of Lake Washington and cussed through a megaphone, so loud that his University of Washington oarsmen could hear. When parents objected, Conibear confessed: "I have to cuss a little in order to bluff my way along." Washington's new crew coach didn't know the first thing about rowing...
...largest crowd ever to see a sport event in the Pacific Northwest-some 150,000-hardly expected its Huskies to win (Washington had scuttled crew during the war). But Cornell, Harvard, M.I.T. Rutgers and California were all coached by Washington alumni, and used the Coni- bear stroke. Only Wisconsin, which claimed that it trained on Wisconsin cheese and hadn't lost a race all year...
...sharp wind roughed up the lake as eight shells pulled away. The Husky crew jumped into an early lead, stayed there until the three-quarters mark. Then Cornell, in the sheltered No.1 lane toward shore, stepped up its beat to 37. Ten powerful strokes pulled the Cornell shell into command; it held the lead against M.I.T.'s finish-line sprint. Washington's Huskies came in third. Wisconsin's heretics also...
...times by all boats, moved up to even terms at the halfway mark, opened a half-length lead over the Huskies at 1,200 meters, and was never headed thereafter. Rutgers faded badly in the closing minutes to finish seventh, and the M.I.T. eight, a considerably improved crew after trailing the Crimson in its first race of the season, moved up quickly at the end of the event to nose out Washington for second place...