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...Dive--Won by Steffens (H), 69.9 points; second, Drohan (H), 69.4 points; third, Durhin...
...beginning, blond, reticent Robert Hampton Gray, 27, was a student at the University of British Columbia, hoping eventually to become a physician. By 1940 he was a sublieutenant in the Fleet Air Arm. In five years he won a citation for dive-bombing attacks on the German battleship Tirpitz, a D.S.C. for sinking a Japanese destroyer. On Aug. 9, 1945, five days before war's end, he skimmed off the flight deck of the carrier Formidable, led an eight-plane attack on Japanese warships outside Tokyo Bay. Tearing through heavy flak, he piloted his riddled, blazing fighter to within...
Professional hockey, the first big sport to take a wartime nose dive, is the first to get back in prewar stride. With the 1945-46 season a month old, some 85% of the National Hockey League's servicemen stars are on ice again. Most of them have Canadian Army discharges; some of them, muscle-stiffened from too much army-style road work, will need another week or two to limber up. Prospective result: the end of the Montreal Canadiens' honeymoon...
Born. To David Niven, 35, Scottish-born cinemactor, lately a British Army lieutenant colonel; and Primula Rollo . Niven, 27, one of the first WAAFs (they met bottoms up after a dive into a slit-trench in a 1940 air-raid): their second child, second son; in London. Name: James Graham. Weight...
When pilots were grounded by fierce storms in the mountains, Tom Hardin would often climb into a plane and coolly dive into the weather, frequently went on to Kunming with a vital cargo. Within a year, eight times as much tonnage was being flown into China as when Hardin arrived. Last week Tom Hardin readied a new order: there is no weather in Latin America...