Word: transfers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sandwiched between two barges carrying 40 loaded freight cars, the New Haven's tug Transfer 21 set out from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn for Greenville on the Jersey shore. Her pilothouse windows were hung with heavy grey curtains, more opaque than any fog. This low visibility did not bother the captain. By glancing at the radar's 12-in. "scope," he could follow all harbor doings for a mile around. A squarish blob meant a ferryboat; a small oval, a tug. Moored ships showed their anchor chains. Snaking her heavy barges through all these obstacles, the Transfer 21 made...
...Donnell, 60-minute man against Dartmouth, is expected to be sharing a goodly chunk of the quarter backing chores even if Kenary is pronounced ready to go against Princeton. To augment the halfback lineup weakened by the transfer of Kenary, Leo Flynn has been moved from behind the center signal calling spot. With this switch the tailback quartet shows a mixture of razzle and venerable experience embracing Hal Moffie, Jim Noonan, and Chuck Roche...
...hard running of fullback Sam Adams, 210-pound transfer from Tufts, was another feature of the scrimmage. Adams' plunging makes him more and more the likely choice to try and fill Vince Moravec's shoes...
Callan, who was elected captain yesterday, played for Lawrence High before his three year stretch in the Marine Corps and this subsequent transfer to Exeter. A 186-pound tackle, Callahan takes over the captaincy of an injury-riddled squad in tomorrow's fray...
Last week, with her country losing its grip on a large part of its overseas empire, Queen Wilhelmina announced that, "for reasons of health," she would "temporarily" transfer the business of ruling to her strapping daughter, Princess Juliana (mother of four strapping little Princesses). To her shocked people, Her Majesty's first minister announced that there was nothing serious to worry about; the Queen, with all "the heavy burdens weighing . . . on her," was just tired...