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Other titleholders: Patricia McWhorter (100-yd. free style), Dorothy Leonard (220-yd. free style), Helen Crlenkovich (highboard dive), Anne Ross (low-board dive...
...outfit that was not surprised by the first shattering havoc wrought by German Stukas was the U. S. Navy. For Navy fliers had first conceived and developed the technique of launching a bomb from an airplane diving as close to the vertical as possible. But because U. S. citizens and their Congress believed in penny-pinching Army & Navy upkeep in peacetime, most of the Navy's dive-bombers today are obsolescent biplanes, descendants of the first Curtiss Helldiver...
...announced by Curtiss-Wright Corp., the new plane is another of the Navy's new fighting craft sleekly built around a superpower, air-cooled engine-a 1,700-horse-power Wright Double-Row Cyclone. Curtiss-Wright announced that XSB2C-I is 100 miles an hour faster than any dive-bomber now in the air, which would put its top speed around 350 m.p.h. And it will carry twice the load of today's best. Since the Stuka Junkers 87 carries a maximum bomb load of 1,100 Ib., airmen could well assume that Helldiver, 1941 can carry better...
Last month a small British naval force appeared off the barren, waterless, craggy, four-square-mile Italian rock of Castellorizo, near the Dodecanese Islands-two miles off the Turkish coast and 60 miles from Rhodes (where the Germans were this week reported to have sent Stuka dive-bombers). After brief opposition, the British forced a landing and took the islet...
...Dracker and Bob White accounted for the seconds in the backstroke and 300 yard medley, respectively. Powers' time was 2:13:8. Bus Curwen took a fourth in the 440 in 5:05, and the 440 relay team placed third behind Yale and Princeton. Shaw McCutcheon qualified for the dive finals, but had to scratch because of his dislocated shoulder...