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...John van Kuren ("Scarsdale Jack") Newkirk, death-dealing leader of the A.V.G. Second Pursuit Squadron, was killed last week. Newkirk had started to be a marksman at the age of five, when he got a bow & arrow. When he was ten his friends in Scarsdale, N.Y. dared him to shoot the first person who came along. That person happened to be the county sheriff, but Jack let fly anyway. When he grew up he studied chemistry and aeronautical engineering. A double mastoid operation in childhood almost kept him out of the Navy's air school at Pensacola...
...fill the two guard positions, Brown chose George Lawry of Princeton and Don Swingler of Brown. Lawry is the sharpshooter who killed all Varsity hopes with nine successive field goals in last week's contest. Burditt, Cantab center, and no mean marksman himself, termed the exhibition "The most phenomenal display of shooting I've ever seen...
Bespectacled Bill Stewart, Junior forward on the home team was the marksman for the evening as he fired 18 points through the hoop to pace the Cornell attack...
...Gailani's answer to the British was to send a concentration of Iraqi troops to the heights threatening Habbania airport, with an ultimatum to the British to cease all operations there. British Ambassador Sir Kinahan Cornwallis, a six-foot-four, big-boned, two-fisted runner, boxer and marksman who has had 35 years' experience in the Near East, replied that the continued presence of the Iraqi concentration at Habbania "might lead to an unfortunate incident...
Aboard ship he helps man the secondary and anti-aircraft batteries, acts as orderly, sometimes (as on the U. S. S. Pennsyl-tinguished marksman (a sort of super-expert) below the ribbons of the Navy Cross, Legion of Honor and other decorations. Most of them he won as a battalion commander in the Marine Brigade...