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...sank within 70 seconds of a direct hit by a German dive bomber. (The Germans had reported the Kelly officially sunk once before.) Cousin of King George and husband of famously wealthy Edwina Cynthia Ashley, Lord Louis had already had a narrow escape last year when his ship, the Javelin, was torpedoed in a Channel battle but limped safely to port. . . . Ferrying planes from factory to field in Britain was Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's adopted son Chiang Wei-kuo. . . .Earthbound as a Home Guard battalion commander was Sir Arthur Whitten Brown, co-hero of the first non-stop...
Clinging tenanciously to the heels of Yale's Varsity for 13 nip and tuck events, Harvard's undefeated track squad went over the top in the final pair, the broad jump and Javelin, and scored a 70 1/2 to 64 1/2 upset in the forty-eighth contest between the traditional rivals...
...against Dartmouth two weeks ago, were to decide the outcome, when in form, Lacey could have won the event with no trouble at all, but his bandaged throwing arm limited him to one toss for the vital second. As his teammates and spectators clustered around expectantly, Lacey took the Javelin without any preparatory throws and tossed it for a meet-winning 184 feet 8 1/2 inches, 7 feet further than Yale's Phil Freeman...
Harvard has been hit much more severely as number one javelin thrower Tom Lacey is still recovering from a pulled arm and Larry Corbett, Dave Ives, and Bob Partlow have all been on the sick list in the past week. Counter-balancing these debits, hammer tossers Bob Chase and Tom White and shot putter John Shattuck have exhibited unbelievable improvement of late...
Saturday afternoon will also find the Freshmen out of town. Bill Palson's Yardlings venture to New Haven to encounter an Eli battalion which Ray Shepard, Andover's track coach, termed the best Freshman team he has ever seen. The jumps, longer distances, hammer and javelin throws appear to be the only events the Crimsons have a chance to win. Comparative scores prove Shepard's theory since the Yale men swamped Andover 86-40 while Harvard could only trail the prep school in last week's triangular tilt...