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After Hall was declared the winner Captain Bixby announced that he had won the medal awarded to the team marksman who had fired the highest scores which counted in the year's matches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hall Wins Shooting Contest In Memorial Hall Mimic War | 5/19/1938 | See Source »

Haven has collected and studied guns for 20 years and is himself a very skillful marksman. Due to his long study of fire arms, he is a recognized authority and has written for many periodicals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BUNKER HILL BRAVERY NOT SO BRAVE--HAVEN | 5/11/1938 | See Source »

...subjects over which there is no controversy. Born & bred on that little strip of San Francisco waterfront that produced Base-bailers Joe Di Maggio, Frank Crosetti and Tony Lazzeri, Basketballer Luisetti is rated one of the best-of-all-time in basketball. A clever passer, spectacular dribbler, amazingly accurate marksman (with either hand or both), he has effected some of the most exciting scoring sprees ever witnessed by modern critics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Point a Minute | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

...been killed, but Chinese well know that out of such an explosion as this Tokyo has often in the past fashioned demands upon China of extortionate severity. There was a short, yelling chase down an alley and a Chinese policeman shot dead a man who was, said the police marksman, the man who threw the grenade. At first he was called a Korean, then a Chinese. His name did not come out last week. Before the parade could reform there occurred another, equally fatalistic demonstration. A Chinese patriot, who had watched the bomb explode, gave a shrill cry: "Long live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Victory, Bomb, Invasion | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

...originally made for use in countertops and tabletops, graduated into wainscotting for hallways and bathrooms, last year was used in store fronts. Pittsburgh also makes Herculite, a glass which will resist temperatures up to 650°. Most spectacular Pittsburgh stunt came last month when Sergeant Frank Shannon, champion marksman of the Newark, N. J. police force, fired a round of Thompson submachine gun bullets at Night-Club Singer Ella Logan. Though only 30 feet from the "Tommy-gun," Miss Logan smiled, powdered her nose, survived. Between the singer and the Sergeant stood a sheet of Pittsburgh's bullet-proof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Glass Week | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

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