Word: towing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Highest score for the week was made by Australian Pilot Leslie Clisby, with 14 enemy ships, seven in one day. Coldblooded Pilot Clisby, 26, was seen engaging a Heinkel in action, then disappeared. Three hours later he turned up at the orderly room with two German prisoners in tow. After forcing the Heinkel down he had landed his own ship, chased the German crew into a wood, captured them at revolver's point. Pilot Clisby's commanding officer remarked it was a bit uncommon for pilots to bring back prisoners...
Built with $750,000 of the fortune young Joseph Ryan inherited from his grandfather, Thomas Fortune Ryan, Mont Tremblant is considered the Sun Valley of the East. It boasts a mile-long chair tow, guests like Doris Duke Cromwell, who recently skipped a dinner date with Belgium's Minister to Canada because "the skiing was too good...
...always been a great newspaper reader. Combing the classified ads one day, she found one asking for a young actor to play black-polled Mickey McGuire in a series of shorts based on Cartoonist Fontaine Fox's Toonerville Trolley strip. Mom blackened little Joe's tow head with burnt cork, and for the next seven years Joe Yule Jr. made 78 Mickey McGuire pictures at $200 a picture. He also had his name legally changed to Mickey McGuire. But in 1932 Producer Larry Darmour shelved the series...
...Ulen's Varsity swimmers returned to Cambridge yesterday with their eighth and ninth consecutive dual meet victories in tow. The latest was an easy 62 to 13 conquest of the hapless Penn mermen in Hutchinson Pool Saturday, the fourth straight league win for the Ulenmen...
With Saradjeff gone there was the problem of finding someone to play the bells. For a while tow professors from Columbia and Smith alternated on successive Sundays (in those days the bells were played every week, if not more often). Mason Hammond '25, associate professor of Classics and History, and at that time head tutor of Lowell House, who had acquired a penchant for playing the bells, performed between times when occasions arose on which it was deemed fitting for the bells to be rung...