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With about 70 more miles astern of them as a result of a week's vacation rowing, the Varsity oarsmen now face the reality of an opening race less than three weeks hence and the task of keeping last year's spotless record unblemished...
...identified by the Japanese as the Yorktown. Correspondent Francis McCarthy of the U.P. was on a heavy cruiser. "Only the term 'mass suicide' can describe the fate of the seven bombers that made up the first attacking wave," he wrote. "They approached this warship from starboard slightly astern at an estimated altitude of 8,000 to 10,000 feet...
...Bolles has admitted, was faster than any other Harvard boat he ever coached, and if anyone is qualified to make such a statement, it is he. As a matter of fact, Bolles thinks that the 1941- Curwen-stroked Varsity would leave some of the Spike Chaoe specials of yesteryear astern by a good length and a half over a mile and three-quarters course...
...torpedo struck the side on which I was standing, about twenty yards astern of my position. It felt like the ship had crashed into a well-rooted dock. It threw me four feet across the deck, but I did not fall, and I did not feel any explosion-just this very great...
...known: estimates vary between eight and 13. Japanese carriers are small, with space for from 24 to 60 planes, compared with U.S. carriers' 80 to 100. They are fast, running to 30 knots. And they are daringly designed, with no island above the flight deck and funnels aimed astern like huge exhaust pipes...