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...crew season made its first official bow a week ago yesterday with an open house for press photographers in the Newell Boat House. However, unofficially, the crewmen have been making continual progress since the Charles river Ice drove them indoors last fall. But since a line must be drawn somewhere, tradition seems to set this "official" opening at the annual onslaught of Boston cameramen...
...that this delivery flight from the factory was a routine matter. The ship, with its hull built only for landing on water, was now rushing over a land where Spanish conquistadors, men in covered wagons, desert rats had died for want of water. But the two officers, the five crewmen gave themselves up to the habit of flight, the saving certainty of airmen that all landings must be happy...
...TIME erred. Lieut. Nicolson was the first fighter pilot, but not the first airman, to get a Victoria Cross in World War II. The first four British airmen who won V. C.s were bomber crewmen: Acting Flight Lieut. Roderick A. Learoyd (attacking a special objective on the Dortmund-Ems canal in the face of heavy point-blank fire); Sergeant Thomas Gray and Flying Officer Donald Edward Garland ("most conspicuous bravery" in wrecking the Albert Canal bridge); Sergeant John Hannah (extinguishing a roaring blaze in a bomber instead of bailing...
Weld, which usually has wherries and comps to spare, is severely taxed. Probably a result of the new feeling of individualistic reliance is the fact that many of the potential crewmen have chosen to row the precarious solo shells. The present streak of good weather has made the Charles the source of gray hair for the coxswains of the eight-man crews, since the river is dotted with many of the water-bugs...
This year had been foremost in nearly all American crewmen's minds because of the projected Olympics, but when the war came this reason was gone, only to be revived again with the possibility of an East-West race in lieu of the trials...