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Again the wild-eyed Swancutt opened fire. Two bullets landed in Schlegel's chest, two hit Policeman Simpson, who kept firing as he fell. Policeman Cole, a pistol marksman, blazed away. That was the end of the rampage. Swancutt was lugged off to a hospital, charged with murder, held for a military trial...
...World War I; a star-studded Victory Medal; a parti-colored array of ribbons showing service in China, Cuba, the Philippines and other odd corners of the earth where Marines served and fought while the world was technically at peace; the gold and enamel medal of the distinguished marksman...
Minnesota Marksman...
Arkansas-born John Thach entered Annapolis (in 1923) with the fixed conviction that a handful of sea water was blue, emerged four years later with a burning urge to fly, which the Navy speedily gratified. Once bewinged, he became a crack aerial marksman...
...read the War Department record of Mrs. Isbelle's grandson, Private Lewis Stall, as a rifle crack, an Army marksman. Then Sam Rayburn rolled out some red-hot secret figures on the U.S. war effort-figures so secret that newsmen, who had known them for weeks, had not dared to tell them. But the Speaker of the House is not subject to censorship. Said Sam Rayburn: "More than 3,300 planes are pouring out of our factories monthly . . . tank production is ahead of schedule, with one company alone turning out an entire trainload daily. . . ." He said that...