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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Captain R. Norman Wood '54 of Marble-head and Winthrop House received the John Tudor Memorial Cup, established in 1929 and awarded each year to the most valuable member of the team. Captain-elect W. Scott Cooledge III '55 of Arlington and Winthrop House received the Donald Angler Trophy for the most-improved player on the team...
When the second Comet I airliner in three months crashed off Italy, all England felt the blow to British national pride. But it found consolation in the sleek new Comets II and III hatching in De Havilland Aircraft Co.'s factories. Trumpeted Lord Beaverbrook's Evening
...about Comet I, there can be none about its successor . . . The aim must now be to speed production ... to ensure that as many as possible of these magnificent aircraft will be in service as soon as possible." Last week Britain found that doubts did exist about Comets II and III. De Havilland suspended all work on the new jets until it found the reason for the Comet I crashes...
...Comet II's (worth $46 million) on order, three were already finished and being test-flown in preparation for delivery to British airlines in four months. Fourteen more were more than half finished. Production was just starting on eleven orders (worth $25 million) for Comet III, with three of the planes ticketed for Pan American World Airways, the only U.S. carrier ever to order foreign aircraft. But De Havilland had no choice. In the last two years, four of the 21 Comet I's in service have crashed, killing 112 people. No one knows what the trouble...
...III Student Penalized...