Word: crew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sports editor, the committee picked Harry Coleman; another V-12 student, who was active with the Columbia crew. Coleman had been a candidate for the paper for one semester. Other editors named were veterans of the Spec staff, but as they considered the entire handling of the matter a violation of all precedent and of the Spectator constitution they, along with the other old members of the staff, refused to serve under the new editorial regime...
...Saturday Evening Post, which crows ("Post luck!") when its prayerful leaps land safely, was also in a subdued mood. War's end found the Post's new star, Richard Tregaskis (Guadalcanal Diary), starting a series of "human, intimate" weekly pieces which promised to follow a B-29 crew "in the long, arduous flight from the plains of Kansas to the bombing run over Japan." His first article got them as far as California...
Before the take-off he heard the men moan as the radio picked up a San Francisco announcer shouting: "I hope all you boys out there are as happy as we are at this moment. People are yelling and screaming, and whistles are blowing." Outbound, the crew prayed for a message that never came, ordering them to dump their bombs into the sea and return to base. They roared in over blacked-out Honshu, weathered the flak of fire-bombed Kumagaya...
...while away the long sea hours, Commodore Richard Valentine Morris brought along his wife, baby, and Negro maid Sal; to keep his crew happy, he let them bring their wives too. This domestically blissful squadron cruised leisurely about the Mediterranean, then settled down to a blockade of Tripoli. During the siege a seaman's wife on the flagship Chesapeake bore a child in the forecastle. When the Commodore's wife began expecting, Morris lifted the blockade and sailed off to Malta so that she could be delivered in style...
Early in March, 1805, General Eaton strode forth to follow the route made famous 138 years later by British Field Marshal Montgomery. His army was a motley crew consisting of Hamet, some 90 of his Arab followers, seven U.S. marines under Lieut. Presley O'Bannon, 40-odd cutthroat Greeks and Italians recruited in Alexandria, an Italian "chief of engineers" (who had been by turns a Capuchin monk, an Indian dervish and a soldier of fortune) and a caravan of 190 camels at $11 a camel...