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...protested the great hero modestly, "this is really too much honor . . ." But the mayor and all the citizens of Bernay who gathered in the town hall on that broiling day of August 1948 laughed aside the protest with proud, tolerant smiles. Too much honor? For Roger Touchard, the champion marksman of two continents, the local boy who had made good? Too much? "Ah, tell me, Touchard," said one of the local dignitaries, "what would you say to a red ribbon in your coat, the Cross of the Legion of Honor? What would you say to that, eh?" Roger merely gasped...
...Marksman Who Missed. Moved and touched, the elder Touchard gave his son money for the journey, and eight days later was rewarded with the news, borne by returning Roger himself, that he had won the contest. "I have smashed the world's record," said Roger. "Bébert!" cried his father, and hurried out to tell the neighbors...
They Laid Him Low. One day early this month, a rifleman waited patiently in the tall corn near the home pasture, until, at twilight, Webb began to plow. The legend was that Webb wore armor and could only be killed by a bullet in the brain. The marksman aimed carefully, and at 200 feet his aim was true. He fired twice again-while daughter Ursley Jean raised her father in her arms-and hit Webb twice again, but the first bullet was enough...
...gallery floor, Foreign Affairs Committee Clerk Boyd Crawford heard the shots crack out, raced into the corridor just in time to see the first gunman emerge from the gallery, gun in hand. Crawford, an amateur marksman, lunged for the pistol, jammed his finger into the trigger guard, and with the aid of a bystander, knocked the man to the tiled floor. A page boy and three Congressmen, assisted by a crowd of outraged spectators, subdued and disarmed the other...
...Point Barrier. One of the National's top events is its men's pistol match. Firing 270 rounds portioned equally among pistols of three calibers (.22, .38, .45), each marksman must blaze away in tests of slow fire (one shot a minute), timed fire (five shots in 20 seconds) and rapid fire (five shots in ten seconds). Target distances range from 25 to 50 yards. With each bull's-eye counting ten points, a total score of 2,700 is possible-but fantastically improbable. In some 50 years of National pistol contests, only nine men have ever...