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Although one team traveled from Michigan University, the 14 teams predominantly represented Eastern colleges. Each entered two crews which were made up of a skipper and an able seaman. Carrying the Crimson colors were David C. Noyes, Jr. '44, skipper, and Paul Van Buren '46, whose boat was entered in the first division and John C. Burton '44, who skippered his craft in the second division with the help of crewman Harold S. Van Buren...
...Skipper Robinson gave orders to steer by her engines. But she was down by the bow, shipping water fast. Her choked pumps wouldn't drain her. Lining up a bucket brigade, her crew bailed her out like a rowboat, all night and all the next day and night, till she dragged on her belly into the port of Tjilatjap, Java...
Good helmsmanship by Captain David Noyes and his fellow skipper Roger Putnam gave the Crimson second honors with 69 points in the first division of the Regatta which was raced in two parts. The first division was topped by the crew of Emil Mosbacher and Warner Willcox of Dartmouth, who garnered 78 points...
...almost made it. Then, near Java one morning, a single Jap reconnaissance plane circled her, took a look, streaked for home. Bright signal flags fluttered from the Langley's halyards, and her windburned skipper, Commander Robert Perche McConnell, set himself for the worst. It came just before noon...
Prize alumnus of the Todd School for Boys in Woodstock, Ill. is a chub-cheeked young precocity named Orson Welles. Silver-haired Headmaster Roger ("Skipper") Hill, watching Orson's progress, has hoped ever since to turn up a few more like him. Last week Orson Welles made the lightning stroke more possible by giving his alma mater a check for $10,000, enough for five two-year scholarships...