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...uses a telephoto lens with a sight such that he can "shoot" at arm's length, as with a fowling piece. He has the eye of a killer to focus and centre his pictures perfectly. Printed. on soft paper his exposures lose some definition, but any experienced gunner will recognize Photographer Simmons' teal, duck and goose action close-ups as the result of shrewd and patient hunting...
Save for some months during the War, in training as a machine-gunner at Camp Hancock, Ga., the rest of his life has been devoted to law and politics. In law he made an astute alliance with Ralph T. ("Dyke") O'Neil, past commander of the American Legion and a Democrat. The firm of Hamilton & O'Neil, with feet in both political camps, did well. In 1934 Partner O'Neil got involved in the War Department supply scandals but Partner Hamilton was not entangled. In politics Hamilton started at the bottom as a precinct captain...
...enough to make them famous, nor a living. Only Nordhoff seemed to care at the time about living. In 1916 he was in the tile manufacturing business in California. James Norman Hall that same year miraculously returned alive to London. He had enlisted in 1914 as a British machine gunner and had gone to Belgium with England's first army. The Germans called this army "The Contemptibles," and practically annihilated it. Hall was an American Grinnell College Ph. D. to, but luck, not his citizenship or college, had kept him from dying in Flanders...
...operations started with a short advance all along the line. This was to be a white man's battle. Regulars and Blackshirts led the advance, with the native Askaris, on which Fascist de Bono had leaned so heavily last year, forming the reserve. It was also a gunner's battle. Marshal Badoglio is an artilleryman first & last. And last week he showed what he could do with guns. His main headquarters was also the artillery observation post. Every five minutes scouting planes went out to circle the front. Monotonously their radios droned directions: A body of Ethiopians...
...resolve not to dishonor its name, a group of Cossack villagers form the Joseph Stalin Collective, and in an extraordinary variety of ways proceed at once to run it to the ground. The principal figure in this comedy of Communist errors is Davidov, forthright, well-meaning mechanic and onetime gunner who arrives at the isolated village of Gremyachy Log, in the Don basin, with instructions to organize all the farmers except the wealthy ones. He is ably assisted in getting into messes by Nagulnov, secretary of the Communist Party in the village, a long-winded, impatient hero of the Revolution...