Word: crew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...while the great typhoon east of the Philippines on Dec. 18 seemed likely to wreck Halsey's whole fleet. But the Ti came through without losing a man or a plane. Dixie proudly read Rear Admiral Frederick Sherman's "well done" over the loudspeaker, and congratulated his crew for its safety record. About that time a sailor who had dozed off on the struts under the No. 2 elevator fell overboard. Angry Dixie flushed brick-red at the blot on the Ti's record. When a destroyer picked up the sailor and returned him, Dixie...
Four or five times a day, Annapolisman Kiefer would get on the bullhorn and plead with his flight-deck crew to hurry up or "that admiral over there will give me hell." When the ship passed through the Canal Zone last fall, he saw to it that nearly all of his 3,000 men got shore liberty at the entrance or the exit. Some had to be carried aboard, but every man made it back to the ship. When the Ti set out from San Diego, only one man deserted...
...crew made up chiefly of kids from The Bronx, Brooklyn and South Boston, and Idaho-born Dixie Kiefer knew how to handle them. The Ti was ragged at first-she would sometimes zig when she was supposed to zag. Her stack often poured smoke. But she settled down. Soon she was breaking records for launching and recovering planes. The raw kids became sensationally good...
...Above all, don't get excited." One day he would say: "I have such a good time on this ship I ought not to take money for running it." Next day: "I wouldn't take this job again at five times the pay." The crew loved him. The Captain had two distractions: his $200 guitar, on which he played (badly) such tunes as Ida and Wishing and Nobody...
Many athletics are open to incoming Freshmen this summer, and the great majority are reported to have taken up crew. The Charles River, while holding a singular fascination for inlanders, sometimes makes new students forget that eight other sports are on the agenda: lacrosse, tennis, soccer, baseball, track, and others...