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...close race all the way to the finish, the Varsity stroked by Schultz Wood, lost to the Tech boat by a length in the first Harvard Varsity defeat in three years. Eight strokes from the finish, the Varsity was only a deck length behind when Wood fouled his oar in through water causing the Haines oarsmen to lose almost a length before they could get started again...
...four motors knocked out, flak holes in her wings, tail and fuselage, and one of her crew wounded. From air photographs it was clear that the U-boats were organized in fleets, prepared to fight underwater or on the surface. One submarine had at least ten deck guns, evidently stood by as an antiaircraft vessel while others concentrated on surface ships...
...night you can sleep in an A-deck suite whose decorations may include peach glass and python-skin fabrics. . . . You open the bathroom door by a plastic composition knob that is warm to the touch. . . . In one ballroom indirect colored lights change automatically with varying tunes of the dance orchestra...
Troops aboard the Queen Mary are fed twice daily, consuming 73 tons of food a day. They sleep Box & Cox on deck, in hammocks and in cramped holds, shoot craps on any cleared deck space. Officers and official passengers are jam-packed into the choicer cabins; nothing less than an ambassador can hope to get space to himself...
...Fast and wellarmed, the big Avenger has plenty of interchangeability, can carry bombs, a huge gas tank, or a torpedo in its bomb bay. Airmen like to tell how an Avenger pilot landed on a carrier, opened up his bomb-bay doors and deposited four hitchhiking sailormen on the deck before he and his crew of two climbed down...