Word: forested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Behind this back-to-the Green- Forest movement were two Yardlings, Paul Sapir '50 and Robert Ashenhurst '50 Neither of them were sure after yesterday's meeting what the direction of Pooh Club would take, or even whether it would be approved by the Dean's office...
...wreck was only 22 miles southwest of the great international airport at Gander. There, beset by fog, a Douglas Skymaster of the Belgian Sabena Lines had crashed one morning last week, New York-bound from Brussels. In the dense forest and quaking muskeg it might as well have been in the Congo. Swiftly and efficiently, one of the most complicated rescues in flying history got under...
...wreck. From the moored plane, a 13-man rescue party from the U.S. Army, led by Dr. Samuel P. Martin, onetime Arctic explorer, fought its way in rubber boats up the rocky, racing Southwest Gander River, tumbled repeatedly into the icy waters. They hacked their way through tangled forest to reach the wreck. A faint cheer went up from the survivors. Eighteen of the 44 were alive, all but four of them badly injured. Twenty-four had died in the crash (two died later). It was the worst accident in transatlantic flying history...
...Davis Cup team-lean Lennart Bergelin and stocky little Torsten Johansson-finally reached the end of the line. Mostly hothouse trained on flossy indoor courts, they had managed with luck and Nordic determination to cop the European crown. Last week in the interzone final at Forest Hills, the U.S. squad blew the Swedes off the court, 5-0. U.S. Singles Champion Jack Kramer and ex-Champion Frank Parker breezed through their singles matches with the loss of just one set; National Doubles Champions Bill Talbert and Gardnar Mulloy just squeezed out an 8-6 fifth-set victory...
...promised. Loss provided all three; first he raised $500,000, cleaned up debts of almost $100,000. Reorganized with Loss as vice president and general manager, Cinecolor's output of film was increased 250% in six months, chiefly for a dozen small-budget pictures (best-known: The Enchanted Forest...