Word: helms
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Efficient Edith Helm, White House social secretary, was momentarily nonplussed. At a press conference someone said he had heard that Bess Truman "used to beat even the boys at mumblety-peg when she was a child in Independence. She used to pull the peg out with her teeth, too." Quickly rallying, Mrs. Helm replied: "That's an esoteric rite of the player. I used to play it myself...
Continuing the Foster reign at the helm of the squash team, Charles Henry Wheelwright Foster H '51 of Charles River and Adams House was elected squash captain yesterday for next year. He replaces his brother Hugh, in taking over the same position that another brother, Adam, held for the 1947-48 season...
...Thursday, Jan 12, the little (643-ton) Swedish motor tanker Divina was plowing out of the Thames estuary, four miles from shore, between Red Sand Tower and the Shivering Sand banks. Second Mate Franz Leipelt, officer on watch, and a British pilot were on the bridge. At the helm, Swedish Able Seaman Herbert Tonning guided his ship at a cautious 10 knots through a calm, moonless night. From the bridge came a shouted order. Tonning spun the wheel, hard. He heard the crunch of steel on steel. Captain Karl Hammerberg, hunched over a pot of tea in the officers...