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Harvey Love, coach of Freshman crew from 1936 to 1942, has returned to Tom Bolies's staff after a four year tour of duty with the Navy and will be available to prepare the Varsity for its first formal season since the beginning of the war, since Freshman crew will not be resumed until next fall...
Both big Joe Curran and his disaffected shipmates would probably be reelected. The Communists weren't after the skipper's stripes; they just wanted to wring some of the salt from his socks. Curran would keep the crew if they would show a little more respect for the Old Man. But until the beefs were squared away, N.M.U. would be a loose ship...
...closest thing to Hell on earth last week was in the midst of the sea-a tortured little patch of dismal grey rock some 235 miles south of Tokyo. For at least four weeks-since it was first sighted by the crew of a British destroyer-the islet, a product of submarine volcanic eruption, has been boiling the sea into clouds of sulphurous steam, belching great blasts of smoke and roiling the muddy bottom for miles around...
...content to wait for spring, or even a semblance of spring. Crew Coach Tom Bolles launched his five heavyweight eights onto the icy Charles yesterday afternoon in the face of driving snow flurries...
Rats on the Bridge. On that day, the ships in Bikini Lagoon will be manned by "guinea pig" crews: 200 goats, 200 pigs, 4,000 white rats. They will wait their fate in the same positions which a human crew would occupy in battle stations: rats in the turrets, on deck, in engine rooms, gun-tubs and bridges. The goats will be tethered among them. Some of the pigs, whose skin approximates human skin, will be dressed in standard Navy anti-flash suits and smeared with anti-flash lotion. A few will have new and secret protection. There will...