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Viggo Bertelsen, Larry Coolidge, and George Krumbhaar are the three veterans around whom Wilde has built his crew. Coolidge, who rowed in a four at Groton, will be in the number three seat. Krumbhaar follows Coolidge at four, and pulled on the first boat at Middlesex for three years...
...Patterson became active co-editors and co-publishers of the Trib, Bertie McCormick was a strapping, blue-eyed young man with an air of Old World gallantry, a feeling of noblesse oblige and a love for the military. He had gone to grade school in England, graduated from Groton one form ahead of his archenemy-to-be, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. After Yale ('03) he moved into Chicago's swank Union Club and began law courses at Northwestern ("They had a lot of Yalemen on the Supreme Court about then, and we got the idea that...
Sailors in orange life preservers over foul-weather gear bustled through the routine tasks of taking a sub to sea at Groton, Conn, one morning last week. When the Nautilus had quietly backed into the Thames River, made a smooth 180° turn and started pushing its massive, whalelike snout south toward Long Island Sound, the abovedeck crew relaxed and waved to the workers lining the docks. At n a.m. on Jan. 17, the Nautilus' blinker snapped out a historic message: "Under way on nuclear power." The crew-and more than 60 special officers and civilians-were quietly jubilant...
...sister ship is now under construction at Groton. Two more atom subs have been authorized by Congress, and three more will be requested in the President's 1956 shipbuilding program. And that is only the beginning...
...Cross national chairman, E. Roland Harriman of Groton, Yale ('17) and Brown Brothers, is a selfless charitarian of long standing, but he is not noted for diplomacy. He was in a particularly undiplomatic mood last week when he arose at Los Angeles to address the 1954 convention of the Red Cross. "Developments in recent disaster operations," he said severely, would force Red Cross to return to its prewar policy of making special fund drives to help stricken cities rather than continuing to furnish aid out of its general fund. As a case in point, Harriman pointed to Flint, Mich...