Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sunday afternoon Harvard faces Vesper Boat Club of Philadelphia--the crew which kept the Crimson out of the Olympics in 1964--and crews from New Zealand and Australia which finished first and second at the North Americans...
Harvard's heavyweight crew will race against its foremost American rival this weekend and also have a chance to avenge a stunning loss at last week's North American Championships...
There was no such frenzied activity in the Aussie camp. As a matter of fact, there was positive gloom-after flu knocked out half the crew and two of the healthy ones got into a brawl in a Thames Street rock 'n' roll joint. Figuring that a change of scenery might do wonders for their morale, Skipper Sturrock herded up all his ambulatory Aussies and dragged them off to Montreal to see Expo. The news from home at least was good. All of Australia is pulling for an upset and praying for one-including a tribe of aborigines...
...sent him to radar school instead, but Bus finally wrangled a transfer to the carrier Liscome Bay-a transfer that fell through when doctors found he had a hernia. He has no regrets: Liscome Bay was later torpedoed off the Gilbert Islands, and went down with most of her crew...
...most distinctive thing about Susan was her skipper, as Mosbacher proved in 1957, when-after clinching his eighth straight championship-he took on Bermuda's best in a two-out-of-three match series for the Prince of Wales Trophy. Rules of the match specified that neither crew could sail its own boat. Given their pick of U.S. boats, they unhesitatingly chose Susan, hoping to annoy Bus. He merely shrugged, closed his eyes, pointed-and sailed whatever boat it was (he does not even remember) to two straight victories...