Word: crew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Riverboat Captain Tom Reynolds, who wasn't much interested in gathering material for a thesis, was willing to navigate his 27-year-old showboat Majestic for the professor during the summer. Professor Wright signed on 22 Kent State and Hiram College students as actors and crew. Then he set sail for a twelve-week cruise up & down the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers. Each morning in port, the students pick the night's hero, choose the villain, and who shall sell tickets and popcorn. Then they parade down the town's main street, drumming up trade...
Deep down inside, the Californians did not feel that they needed the U.S. on their side in the Olympic games. They had a bumper crop of their own athletes. At Henley-on-Thames last week, the University of California's smooth eight-oared crew got off to a slow start, but never had to raise the beat too high. The coxswain simply called for a "big ten" (increasing the effort, but not the beat, for ten strokes) and Cal smoothly spurted into the lead. California won easily over Great Britain's Leander Boat Club and Norway...
Cryptic Brevity. A native Kentuckian (born in a town called Hurricane), Tom Wallace joined the Times, at no pay, in 1900. He was 31 when Watterson made him the youngest member of the Courier-Journal editorial-page crew. Thirteen years later, when Marse Henry quit in a huff (because Owner Robert Worth Bingham came out for the League of Nations), Wallace switched to the Times as chief editorial writer. He has been there ever since, driving at dawn from his 150-acre dairy farm to fire his pungent editorial missiles through the composing room tubes...
...Jews of Europe had to wear long curls; many young Israelis of Tel Aviv favor crew cuts in the American-or Prussian-style. Israeli girls, who run to the buxom bucolic type, stride the streets in slacks or shorts. Many have gone into the CHEN, Israeli version of the WAC. The young people turn their backs on sentimental, nostalgic, masochistic traditional Jewish art. Such plays as the great Yiddish drama, The Dybbuk, draw an almost unanimous "it stinks" from the sabras. Their strong, bronzed young hands have no tendency to rend their open-necked sport shirts in grief...
...however, ornately produced (in Britain, by a U.S. crew), with more than ordinary feeling for atmosphere; and scene by scene, aside from its central weakness, it is reasonably interesting and sometimes exciting. Ray Milland is helpful in hinting the honesties which no tongue dares to utter. Leo G. Carroll plays Nemesis so well as to make one wish he'd get a chance to play something else. And Geraldine Fitzgerald, who is seen much too seldom, does a fresh and welcome job as the pathetic, unstable old friend whom Miss Todd reluctantly exploits...