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Unable to fly, Annapolisman Wead supported himself by writing about flying, mostly for the movies. Dirigible, Hell Divers, Test Pilot, Ceiling Zero, Dive Bomber and a dozen other pictures made him a well-paid, well-known man, a sort of Secretary of Aviation in Hollywood's ruling circles. In World War II Wead wangled active duty, hobbled about the flight decks of the Pacific with his neck in a steel brace, and won the Legion of Merit for his theory of the supporting carrier, a major contribution to Pacific strategy...
...dive and the relays, however, constitute Yale's main strength. The Blue beat Williston in the dive; the Crimson did not. In the 400-yard freestyle relay, Yale clocked 3:45.0 against Princeton last Saturday, whereas Harvard's best time...
...strange compassion on the part of Kiphuth, how the varsity can hope to score more than 25 points, leaving the Elis with at least 61. And if things go really badly, it is entirely conceivable that the Crimson might be shut out in every event but the dive...
...Battledore and Shuttlecock, but only enough to slow his sled by a fraction. Toes up once more, he skittered under a railroad bridge past nasty little bends called Scylla and Charybdis. At the finish line he was traveling 90 m.p.h. Bibbia's time for the 1,320-yd. dive: a winning...
Greg Stone provided a mild surprise in the dive by edging teammate Frank Gorman. Gorman has generally been the more effective of the two in the past in this event. The varsity will be counting heavily on its divers in the Yale meet on Saturday...