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Harvard took seven of 10 events including a sweep of the 200-yard freestyle and the diving competition. The win was Harvard's third in four days.
As Fuchida's bombers neared Oahu, the defenders of Pearl Harbor got the last of their many warnings. Just outside the harbor, the U.S. destroyer Ward spotted an intruding submarine at 6:30 a.m. and opened fire from 50 yds. away. As the sub began diving, the Ward finished it...
Within minutes, Pearl Harbor was pandemonium: explosions, screams, tearing steel, the rattle of machine guns, smoke, fire, bugles sounding, the whine of diving airplanes, more explosions, more screams. With Battleship Row afire, Fuchida's bombers circled over the maze of Pearl Harbor's docks and piers, striking again and again...
The Big Red, which had come off a 56-6 massacre at the hands of Stanford last week, looked much fresher after its 6000 mile journey than Harvard. Cornell players made diving catches, risking turf burns. The Big Red was willing to do anything to win.
After the war, I rode down an elevator with Arthur Kent, neatly clothed in the latest Gap-wear, and a horde of NBC executives in suits. Kent was relating the scuba diving story he had been telling on every interview show in New York and the execs were lapping it...