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I.C.S. officials and faculty are rightfully proud of the men they have helped to fame. Among them are the late Walter P. Chrysler, Curtiss-Wright President Guy Warner Vaughan, Rifle Inventor John C. Garand, Curtis Publishing Company's President Walter Fuller, the C.I.O.'s Philip Murray. Britain's famed Cartoonist David Low got his start in New Zealand with a four-year I.C.S. cartooning course. Recently I.C.S. received a grateful letter praising "the schooling which Dad got from your correspondence course. . . ." The writer: E. N, Eisenhower, brother of the Supreme Commander...
...Rest of the List. For the rest of its job, Ordnance could claim more than a passing grade. It had the best rifle in the world-the Garand (which the riflewise Marine Corps had originally rejected after exhaustive tests, thus proving that there is more than one judgment to be made about any weapon). It had been first on the field with the bazooka...
...deadly green valley on Guam, a Marine in mottled battle dress worked slowly forward, Garand at the ready. Ahead of him crept another mottled figure: a brown and black Doberman pinscher with ears acock. Now and again the dog stopped; the Marine hand-signaled to it and the dog moved on. Then suddenly the Doberman stiffened. The Marine raised his rifle and the valley echoed with shots. From a tree ahead a Jap sniper tumbled and lay still...
Step One. A marine sergeant took charge of the dozen or more men participating. First he handed a marine a hand grenade. The marine jumped into the quarry and began to edge toward the cave while one of his pals covered him with a Garand. The grenade was tossed into the cave. It burst with a muffled thud. In a movie version of killing Japs, the incident might have ended at this point. But marines have long since learned that one grenade does not always finish off the occupants of a cave or pillbox; almost invariably there are five...
Correspondent Bigart singled out for special mention the work of 25-year-old Corporal George Sylvester Viereck Jr., who stood in the mouth of the cave blasting away with his Garand rifle at oncoming Nazis while an artillery barrage thundered down on them from the rear. Said Corporal Viereck: "We had a feeling of animal joy as that stuff came down on the surrounding Germans...