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Firsts by Hawaiian Bill Kanakanui in the two sprints also kept the cadets in the fight until the Varsity's Jerry Gorman and Forbes Norris swept the 440-yard freestyle. All eyes were upon Norris in this last event before the relay, as his second finish over Navy Millar in this event clinched the outcome of the battle. Hence the surprise triumph of the 400-yard freestyle relayers Norm Watkins, John Watkins, Walt Bullard, and Bill MacVicar turned a one-point edge into a 15-point rout...
...Hawaiian reunion as well as some last times will be provided in the sprints, as Crimson's Captain John Watkins and his brother Norm will be struggling to say Aloha in these quickies to sailors Charlie Dwight and Bill Kanakanui. Most appropriately the latter's name is the island equivalent of big medicine...
...would make several million dollars out of it," said Earl Boden Wilson, president of California & Hawaiian Sugar Refining Corp. and an industry spokesman. "But the sugar industry would be blamed for years & years [for the high prices]." They didn't want that to happen...
...finance. In Hilo (pop. 23,353), drug sales dropped as much as 30%; dry goods, 33%; auto service, 60%. Plantations lost an estimated $21 million of business; workers lost almost $8 million in wages. Acres of unattended cane, which must be irrigated to survive, withered in the hot Hawaiian sunshine, and the world lost 180,850 tons of raw sugar. Estimates of the time it will take to put plantations back on production schedules ran up to four years...
Singled out for plaudits were Norman Walkins, who hails from Hawaiian waters, and Arty Phinney, an ex-Exeterite. Paul Killoran, unique in his non-service background also flashed considerable speed. Killoran was a member of a Sandusky, Ohio, aggregation that won the state championships last year...