Word: river
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard student and his Radcliffe date were robbed on Harvard Observatory grounds at 11:45 p.m. last night by a band of three teenagers. Police believe the robbers are the same group that beat and robbed Gerard H. Fisher '49 and threw him unconscious into the Charles River early yesterday morning...
Communist armies exploded into action again along the Shanghai front, which had lain quiet for 15 uneasy days. From the top floor of Broadway Mansions, Shanghai's tallest apartment building, tenants saw sharp flashes of cannon fire across the Whangpoo River, and the glow of burning villages farther to the north. At week's end, Red General Chen Yi's forces, driving relentlessly from the west and southwest, were within eight miles of the city. Simultaneously, two Red armies from the northwest knifed in toward Woosung Fort at the confluence of the Whangpoo and Yangtze rivers...
...days in Nairobi where dinner dress would be needed . . . Rather than take a chance on finding in the African shops an exploring costume in her size (almost no ready-made clothes anticipate her doll-like proportions)," Mrs. Adrian bought them in Manhattan. For the trip up river she wore "an oyster-white silk Shantung suit made (where better?) in her husband's workrooms; and as an alternate for the skirt a pair of Shantung slacks . . ." Mr. Adrian's equipment for the trek: "a picnic hamper . . . an out-of-doors stove, an alarm-clock wristwatch, a Rube Goldberg knife...
Harvard's eight pulled down the river in short bursts, testing a variety of cadences. In the bow of his launch, Tom Bolles chewed gum, bellowed instructions through a megaphone and watched every move of his long-legged crew. A big man himself, he has no time for little men: "Unless he's six-feet-four and his hands hang down around his knees, he can't be a good oarsman." At Cambridge Bridge, the coach went wild yelling at a flock of dinghies to clear the course. In a practice spin at 2,000 meters...
...Breadon's high-flying Cardinals won nine National League pennants, six World Series, earned more than $8,000,000. Breadon, who said that he had never seen a funeral and did not want one for himself, requested that he be cremated and his ashes scattered in the Mississippi River...