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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spite of all the trouble, the National Muzzle Loading Association has some 6,000 members. Their principal shoot is held in late summer at Friendship, Ind., but the most devoted also get together for a yearly shoot at Fort Ticonderoga. This year 85 true believers made the trip, spent a smoky weekend happily blazing away at National Rifle Association small-bore targets. "They're all crazy," commented a Ticonderoga resident (no muzzle-loader fan), "but they have...
...Chicago Sun-Times's Ray Brennan, 44, is a fast-thinking, fast-moving reporter who modestly puts down his long list of beats to "good luck." Once, while working in Chicago for the Associated Press, he made a routine long-distance checking call to Crown Point, Ind., got the county prosecutor on the wire just in time to get a big exclusive: Gangster John Dillinger had crashed out of the Crown Point jail. Last week another and bigger beat landed Reporter Brennan in trouble. In Washington, a grand jury indicted him for impersonating a government employee. (Maximum penalty: three...
City Ways. In Richmond, Ind., a twelve-year-old visitor from the country carefully explained why he had turned in a false fire alarm: some city boys had told him that if he pulled the lever in the red box a bird would pop out and forecast the weather...
Arthur C. Barschdorf, reporter, Hammond (Ind.) Times. Native of Adams, Mass., he attended Williams College and Northwestern University night school. He plans to study the political and social problems of an industrial community...
Into a new wing of Alcoa's Lafayette, Ind. plant last week rolled a 107-ton steel casting made in Germany. The huge casting is actually only a single pact of a still bigger machine: a giant extrusion press 2½ times more powerful than any of its type in the U.S. When it is put together, the press will be capable of horizontally ramming a heated aluminum billet into a stationary die with a force of 13,200 tons (equal to the weight of 156 loaded coal cars). The new press will cut production time in half...