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...police station," reported the July issue of the American Rifleman. "To the officer behind the desk, she ex plained that she thought she had heard a prowler but was mistaken. 'Now I can't get it uncocked,' she said. The officer helpfully eased down the hammer without firing...
Fortunately for Adams, it was too late. The auctioneer's hammer had al ready fallen, and the painting was delivered in due time to its new owner. "I was confirmed of my opinion of its merit," noted the crusty diarist judiciously on Sept. 24. Posterity agrees with his evaluation. In the 1830s, a maritime scene by Robert Salmon (see color) brought around $30 apiece. Today, Salmons sell for between $10,000 and $15,000. A recent exhibit of 93 canvases at the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, Mass., organized with the help of Dartmouth Art Historian John Wilmerding, drew some...
...flagpole in the courtyard of the 13th century stone barn, the black, red and gold stripes of Germany flew above the red hammer and sickle of the Soviet Union. It was a tribute to German Baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, by all odds the world's finest lieder singer, who was to perform in the barn during the Touraine Festival in central France. It was also an act of self-effacement by Fischer-Dieskau's accompanist, Soviet Pianist Sviatoslav Richter, who has made the rustic, four-year-old festival his own showcase...
Compared with the V-L, the conventional rifle is a Rube Goldberg contraption. When the trigger is squeezed on a conventional weapon, the cocked firing hammer strikes a primer cap in the cartridge, setting off a primer charge. That in turn ignites the powder, which explodes and drives the bullet through the barrel but leaves the spent cartridge-and a trail of incompletely burned powder-behind. The cartridge must then be pulled out of the firing chamber by a bolt mechanism and ejected...
...events, the hammer and the mile relay, were cancelled...