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...emotional pressure of a man who finds himself in a quandary which he can do nothing to escape, seem immensely credible and vivid. The incident in the story by John Monk Saunders is as melodramatic as is customary for narratives of its type. The last sequence-in which a gunner puts the pilot's corpse in a plane and riddles it with bullets to make it look as though he had died in battle-is characteristic. But even episodes like the one in which Jerry Young (March) shoots down a young German ace, then has hysterics at a banquet...
...lungs: "I demand 20 minutes to address the House. Whoever tries to stop me will die. Is that understood? I want to be heard." Twenty feet below on the floor the House was taking a teller vote on a minor appropriation amendment. At the gallery gunner's outcry the hundred members present were seized with honest panic. Most of them sprinted for the safety of the cloakrooms. Others ducked under tables. A few sat petrified in their seats. One Representative who did not lose his head was Minnesota's "lame duck" Melvin Joseph Maas, an overseas aviator with...
...blown away. A young man died in his mother's arms. One proud father went out to the park to see his son march with the machine gun company. He fell with a bullet through the lungs. It was different from shooting on the range. A white-faced machine gunner dropped his piece, fled screaming in hysterics...
...eyes of Peter Giachino, a gunner of Raymboultown, Mich., popped one day last week when he took out the innards of a partridge he had shot. Coiled in the bird's gullet, still showing signs of life but with its head firmly imbedded in the bird's gizzard, was a 15-in. grass snake. Gunner Giachino put the innards with snake attached, on show in a jar of alcohol in the window of the Reilly Picture Shop at Laurium. ¶ Omen of a cold winter: partridges' legs are heavily feathered this year...
...embark June 18 on the destroyer U.S.S. Tillman for the advanced training cruise, which will return on or about June 30. The officer in charge of the group of 28 students will be Lieutenant (j.g.) E. A. Seay, U.S.N., (assistant professor of Naval Science and Tactics), assisted by Chief Gunner's Mate W. E. Stevens, U.S.N.R...