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Lieut. Colonel Frank Kurtz, ex-Olympic high diver, pilot of the old Flying Fortress Swoose, which has "worn ruts" across the Pacific ferrying Lieut. General George Brett, former United Nations Air Force Commander in the Southwest Pacific, knew the story. He had flown the long battle of airfields from Clark Field in the Philippines to the bastion of Australia. This week the story was out, in a new book by War Correspondent W. L. White (They Were Expendable, TIME, Sept. 28). Using the formula that was such a sensational success in the tale of the PT boats in the Philippines...
...Diver: "To go into that cabin where, if I open the door, dead bodies of children will rush toward...
Hawaiian Swede. The man back of this triumph of paternalism over disease is big, redheaded, Swedish-born Dr. Nils Paul Larsen, Medical Director of Queens Hospital in Honolulu, allergist, artist, mountain climber and deep-sea diver (until heart trouble recently put a stop to it). Now 53, he went to Hawaii in 1921 as head of the hospital, a job he kept until his retirement last year. In the '20s the high infant-mortality rate on the plantations shocked him, but he thought the plantations potentially "the finest biological test tubes in the world." He talked the Association directors...
...Diver Ralph Buratti, barrel-chested Junior from New Brunswick, won the low board diving, but finished second from the higher board on Saturday night to Princeton's Connie Doran. Breast stroker Chuck Gantner, who butterflies all the way, was the main cog in the Scarlet's medley relay victory, and he edged Tiger Norm Zheutlin in the 200-yard breast stroke...
Harvey Pastel, Sophomore diver, will compete with Bob Aaron in the high board event, and Aaron will also take part in the low board competition. He will also swim in the 200-yard breast stroke, as will Don Ulen...