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...Tons per Sq. Mi. They also knew what air attack would not do. For nearly 22 months, since Major James Devereux and the last of his Marines were overwhelmed, the Jap had been building on Wake. In 48 hours 600 tons of high explosive, some half million .50-caliber bullets struck the atoll's four square miles. At 150 tons of high explosive per sq. mi., it was the most concentrated attack on any Pacific target...
Died. Lawrence Waterbury, 65, onetime ten-goal poloist; after three months' illness; in Palm Beach. He was the last surviving star of the great American team of Monty and Larry Waterbury, Harry Payne Whitney and the incomparable Devereux Milburn, first to win the International Cup from the British, winners of every game in the 1909, '11 and '13 matches. He was also three times national amateur racquets champion...
...Died. Devereux Milburn, 61, rated for some 20 years the world's greatest polo player; of a heart attack; in Westbury,L.I. A poloist from the age of 14, he transformed what had been a short-passing, easygoing game into the hard-riding, hard-hitting polo that satisfied the most excitement-hungry; the style of play that brought the International Challenge Polo Trophy to the U.S. from England for the first time in 1909-the first year he played on an international team. He played on all the U.S. international teams from that year through 1927, and lost only...
Died. Mrs. James Patrick Sinnott Devereux, 27, wife of Wake Island's defender, U.S. Marine Lieut. Colonel ("Send us more Japs") Devereux; of diabetes; in Washington, D.C. An Army daughter (of Colonel John P. Welch, in command of the Quartermaster Depot at Richmond, Va.), pretty Mrs. Devereux's illness had apparently been aggravated by worry over the fate of her husband, last reported in a Shanghai prison camp. Orphaned for the duration was Son Patrick Devereux...
...Field Artillery Reserve were: Joseph M. Ambrose, Dancers; Walter D. Brooks, Jr., Fitchburg; Francis E. Carlson, Winchester; Arthur G. Carty, Jamaica Plain; Thomas M. Cook, Cleveland Heights, Ohio; Stuart H. Cowen, West Warwick, Rhode Island; Richard B. Craig, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Robert F. Cutting 2d, New York City; Nicholas E. Devereux 3d, Fort Ontario, New York; John J. Devin, Newton Center; Henry F. Dunbar, Boston; Gerald Eisner, New York City; Russell W. Ellis, Winchester...