Word: crews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Somewhere over Greenland the giant Kee Bird lost its bearings, plunged down to a crash landing on a frozen lake. For three days the eleven-man crew sat it out, tapping out signals on a gasoline-powered radio. When a C-54 skimmed in for the rescue it was so cold that the pilot, Lieutenant Bobbie Joe Cavnar, never dared stop his engines...
...time his rocket flasks had boosted the overloaded transport-with all the Kee Bird's crew-into the air, another Superfort was in trouble, 2,000 miles away. A last message placed it over Alaska's famed Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. Then it vanished, with a crew...
...went the rescue planes again-Superforts and tiny amphibians. But before the crash had been located, a rescuing B-29 blazed up from an engine fire near Naknak. Unable to check the flames, the crew bailed out. All but one were promptly picked up by civilian search planes...
...plans got snarled in red tape. Apparently unable to carry even these expenses, Dean Sherman, after consultation with President Jordon, wrote to Captain Conant, "regretting the steps that had to be taken," but reaffirming that "for financial reasons the college could not at this time undertake to continue crew...
Thus, with every avenue apparently closed, extinction of the champion crew seems certain. Reassuring word for any disappointed Crimson oarsmen, however, has drifted down from Northampton, where a boatload of inexperienced but definitely eager beauties has been training all fall, and is apparently ready and willing to take a crack at the Charles Challenge...