Word: star
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other Harvard crews placed third in the Eastern Intercollegiate Star Class Finals at New London, third in the Brown Fall invitation Regatta, and third in the Freshman Dinghy Championship elimination races at M.I.T., thus qualifying for the finals in this event...
...National lost almost half its passenger traffic, turned in a $1,946,041 deficit in 1948. But last week, National's President George T. ("Ted") Baker was hardly acting like a man who expected to shut up shop. He announced that he would launch a new, luxury "Star" flight from New York to Miami this week, in all-out competition against Eddie Rickenbacker's Eastern Air Lines...
National's "Star" passengers will get the full red-carpet treatment, starting with a carpet on the loading ramp and recorded music at take-offs and landings. The specially decorated DC-6s will seat 56 people and will have a lounge (Eastern's smaller Constellations carry 60 passengers, some sitting three abreast), fresh flowers in the planes every day, and such features as hot hors d'oeuvres and linen napkins. Fares will be no higher than on other DC-6 flights...
...other side of the East River. All the embarrassments and humiliations of adolescence are here, with perhaps a few more than is customary: the pimples, the first long pants, the first dates, the first fights, the first sexual experiences, and the earnest attempts, quickly thwarted, to become a football star...
Yachtsmen Frank Scully and John Gardner sailed the Crimson to a third place position in this week's Intercollegiate Star Class Championship races on the Thames. Yale's perennial winner Bob Coulson led the Elis to victory over eight colleges, Colgate placed second...