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...ships at Pearl Harbor, local defenses, location of fuel dumps, disposition of ships. He noted, among many other things, that U.S. battleships were often moored in pairs; this indicated that torpedo attacks against the inboard ships would be ineffectual. That report, he says, "caused a strong emphasis on dive-bombing with specially built bombs evolved from 16-in. armor-piercing shells...
...notably mediocre one meter diving contest, Jeff Lewy led Ric Johnson and Brown's Bill Alderman with 64.83. Highest score for a single dive was six. Fred Cooley touched out Bruin Tom McMullen to take the 100 free in a singularly inspired, but slow...
...scoring. Aside from his second to Pringle, Kaany churned to first in the 160 yard individual medley, while Holt listed a win in the 220 freestyle and a third in the 440. For the third straight year, Springfield's Pritchard Poirer outshone Harvard's Rio Johnson in the dive. Former Yardling aoe Jerry Lewy trailed Johnson, who had placed second only to all-time Crimson great Frank Gorman in the Yale meet last year...
...Dive--Won by Poirer (S); 2, Johnson (H); 3, Lewy (H). 73.33 points. 200 yard butterfly--Won by Pringle (H); 2, Kaany (S). Time--2:09.9. 100 yard freestyle--Won by Zentgraf (H); 2, Rose (H); 3, Winn (S). Time--51.7. 200 yard backstroke--Won by Hayden (H); 2, Stearns (S); Time...
...Every disorder on the mainland increased the power and population of Hong Kong. By the turn of the century, 230,000 Chinese were residents; in the 1930s, the chaos caused by Japan's invasion of China brought in a million refugees. On Dec. 8, 1941, the Japanese dive-bombed Kai Tak Airport. Hong Kong's garrison surrendered to the Japanese on Christmas Day, 1941-exactly 100 years after the British had founded the colony...