Word: crew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Recruit Wanted. In Philadelphia, an aircraft-carrier crew searched in vain for a mascot - all available monkeys were either too young...
From Admiral Turner's flagship off Okinawa, CBS's Don Pryor reported that at first, among the crew, "nobody believed it." He heard a sailor remark shortly, "It's like somebody dying in your own family." Reported Douglas Edwards from London: "Everyone here wandered if there couldn't be some mistake." Reported the Blue's Clete Roberts from Rome: "I met an American soldier. He came up to me and said: 'The President is dead. I feel so funny. I've got to talk to somebody.' That was how I learned. . . ." Tchaikovsky...
...northern end of the island, he found at last the perfect haven. Only one man, his friend Antonio, came there to bring him food. Tweed stayed for 21 months with only an algebra book, nine magazines and a pack of cards for company until the day a U.S. destroyer crew caught sight of his mirror and flag signals, sent in a motor launch to start him home...
With a starting crew built around a nucleus of three holdovers from last year's outfit, Coach Bert Haines is now sending his Varsity shell into its last practice trials before its opening regatta on Saturday, April 28, against Navy and M.I.T., and the second race the following week against Cornell and Tech...
...river only since March, the crew is expected to find though going in its initial appearances as it tackles a Navy crew which has been practicing all winter, and a veteran M.I.T. crew that is virtually unchanged since last spring. Competition for oars this season, however, has been keener than in the past few years, as only Coxswain Danny Paul, Tom Haymond, and John Kettelle return from the 1944 shell...