Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Japanese destroyer sliced Kennedy's craft in two in the vicinity of the Solomon Islands one day in August 1943. Watertight bulkheads kept the wreckage afloat long enough for Skipper "Shafty" Kennedy, nicely played by Actor John Baer, to direct rescue operations and collect the remains of his crew. Soon all but one were languishing safely on a coral island. But Shafty was still at sea, towing in a panicky sailor who had been badly burned. "He's a champion swimmer−Harvard team," one crewman reassured the others. "Besides, it's only three miles...
...barechested, fighting currents, rolling almost unconscious in the swirl, negotiating dangerous reefs, coughing, stumbling through the underbrush. "Let me tell you," says Crewman Maguire, "there's a guy." Soon some friendly natives were smuggling Shafty to safety and a rescue team. After a few more dips, the whole crew climbed aboard a U.S. PT boat, uncorked a "medicinal" bottle of hooch and sang Jesus Loves...
Over 400 tickets have been sold for the concert, which cannot go on without the drum and the truck, let alone Page and Rinehardt. Page is property crew manager of the Band; Rinehardt is assistant manager. The truck is required to transport hundreds of pounds of Band equipment to Sanders Theatre, where the concert will be held...
...Bill Knowland has plenty of company on Capitol Hill. Maryland's Republican Senator John M. Butler announced that he wants to make organized labor subject to existing antitrust laws. Massachusetts' Democratic Senator John Kennedy, chairman of a labor subcommittee on remedial legislation, is at work directing a crew of experts who are examining a bookful of possibilities, such as tighter pension and welfare fund rules, strong laws defining conflict-of-interest deals, a federal commission similar to the Securities and Exchange Commission, that would protect the public interest against corrupt union activities just as SEC clamps down...
Planes & Camels. For the French side of the story, a CBS crew headed by Paris Correspondent David Schoenbrun got pictures of the French forces-in planes, weapons carriers, on camels and afoot-swooping down on a gunrunning caravan in the desert, raiding a burned-out farm settlement for hiding rebels (they found one suspect), seizing a cache of bombs in a raid within Algiers' famed casbah. Schoenbrun underscored the heavy threat of terrorism in daily civilian life, the heavy commitment of France's money and prestige, the huge stake of the 1,000,000 French and other European...