Word: crewe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Donald C. Watson, Jr. '41, manager of the Varsity crew, announced yesterday that a dinner will be given Friday, night at 7:30 o'clock in the Harvard Club in honor of last year's rowing team. Robert F. Herrick, '90, who was coach of the victorious Henley crew in 1914, will sponsor the event...
...crew, to be feted at this dinner, was one of the most successful crews of recent years. They were defeated only once, and this one loss was at the hands of Cornell under very bad weather conditions. Also, they rowed to their second straight win over Yale in as many years and last summer captured the Challenge Trophy in England...
...different story. Bound with a cargo of gasoline from Pernambuco, Brazil, to Bahia, standing about 70 miles offshore (580 miles inside the neutral zone set up by the Panama Conference; TIME, Oct. 9), the Clement was plugging along at her weary ten-knot pace when members of the crew heard an airplane. The plane circled around, shot bursts of machine-gun fire into the air. Captain F. C. P. Harris stopped ship. A "warship" came up from nowhere, hove to, ordered the men into four boats, captured Captain Harris and his chief engineer, took still and moving pictures...
...raider, whoever she was, did not think for another moment of the Clement's crew. With good weather and luck, all of them reached shore. All 47 were immediately asked a question everyone wanted answered. What ship attacked? One man, apparently a spokesman, replied with assurance: "The attacking ship came so close I could read the name Admiral von Scheer." Either his eyesight or his memory was bad: the name he had meant to speak was Admiral Scheer...
...Gerard Fokker in his slickest airflow style, sank in the Hudson River near Yonkers, N. Y. Honeymooning on the borrowed boat were a bride and groom of five hours, friends of Fokker, when a fire started in an ornamental fireplace in an after cabin, spread quickly, driving honeymooners and crew overboard. At the launching a year ago, Designer Fokker mused: "I hope it will be obsolete within two years. . . . That is good. That is progress. Today there are too many yachts that outlive their owners...