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Despite the loss of two of its five expert marksmen, the Harvard Rifle Club team succeeded yesterday afternoon in overcoming the visiting Trinity College sextet on the Arlington range by a score of 521 to 511 points...
...Harvard team was unfortunate in not having its captain, and one of its best marksmen, T. C. T. Buckley...
Some of the better marksmen returning again this year are: T.C.T. Buckley '32, J.A. Booth '33, K.R. Ludiam '33, Samuel Powel, Jr. '32, and W.M. Wing '31. Buckley has just resigned his post as president of the club and has appointed Ludiam in his place, but he will retain his position as captain of the team...
...legislative chamber, scratched, cooed, flew about the high ceiling making themselves a nuisance. Debate on a $600,000 appropriation bill was dropped, the Speaker called the janitor. The janitor called his assistant. His assistant called Electrician Fred Karns. Finally, over the protest of several legislators who fancied themselves as marksmen, it was decided that the electrician was the nimblest present, best suited for crawling to points of vantage from which to snipe the pigeons. Sportsman Karns provided himself with an air rifle recently taken from a small boy who had been caught hunting in the capitol grounds, shot six pigeons...
...Army marksmen all know the story about the old rifleman who never took a bath during the National Shoot because "it might change his conditions." Last week at a Democratic victory dinner in Hartford, Governor-elect Wilbur Lucius Cross of Connecticut, 68, Dean-Emeritus of Yale's Graduate School, attributed his good health during his rigorous campaign to the fact that he was too busy to take a bath. While younger and sturdier associates succumbed to minor ills, said Governor-elect Cross, he never felt better in his life. "When I returned home after a rally it would...