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With what might be called an intimate knowledge of the Army's passion for "correct nomenclature," I can't help but wonder how many members of the military drew a bead on your Oct. 15 picture caption [which] erroneously labeled a 75-mm. recoilless rifle. It is actually a 57-mm. recoilless rifle...
...woman doing with a gun?" The woman on the front page was Flo Bratten, secretary to Veep Alben Barkley, dressed in her outfit as an honorary Kentucky deputy sheriff, and the gun she held was pointed straight at the reader. Steele grinned; Flo Bratten had reason to draw a bead on him. He had just broken the story of how Mrs. Bratten and Charles Shaver, counsel for the Senate small business committee, had lobbied for a $1,100,000 RFC loan to build a Miami hotel. After Steele's beat, Shaver quit his Senate job, and congressional investigators began...
...clothing trade publications (American Fabrics, Men's Reporter, Canadian Reporter, Gold Book Directory"). They claim a solid year's booking of advertising for Gentry, and 14,000 charter subscriptions. Flair may well have failed because it aimed at no particular reader. Singer thinks he has drawn a bead on Gentry's: a sort of soth Century Renaissance man-well-educated, well-heeled, with leisure to dabble in the arts, science, sports, philosophy or his own Finnish bath...
...Senate Committee probing RFC last week drew a bead on one of RFC's best customers-Kaiser-Frazer Corp. In a 30-page report, the Committee charged RFC should not have made a $34 million loan to K-F in October 1949. Even though K-F would have gone bankrupt without it, said the Committee, K-F's prospects of repaying out of earnings were so dim that "the public [interest]...did not justify the use of public funds to continue operation of K-F as an auto company." Following the first loan, K-F tapped...
...horse while he dismounted. He had also handed Amou his rifle to hold (although the Berbers, a proud, sensitive people who had ruled the land long before the Arabs or the French got there, are not permitted to own rifles in Morocco). Amou calmly took the gun, drew a bead on the corporal and killed him. Then he fled to the hills with the gun and 21 cartridges...