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...south, completely undefended Canton reeked with gore and horror as the Japanese, day after day, bombed the vast metropolis from which not so much as a rusty Chinese musket cracked against them last week. Nauseated newshawks tied handkerchiefs soaked in deodorants across their faces as they prowled about Canton streets strewn with decomposing Chinese corpses. The few available surgeons operated night and day in improvised hospitals. But Chinese morale did not crack. Between every raid, sweating Cantonese hustled through into the interior of China by rail and truck the precious munitions landed from British Hong Kong 78 miles down...
...Haven points out, however, that very few people realize that the musket used by American troops would not shoot any further. "You had to be able to see a man's eyes in order to shoot him," Haven has discovered...
Unable to find a gun-toting Warren County farmer guarding his blackamoors when he got there, keen James Keen sim ply persuaded a visitor from Atlanta to put on a shabby shirt and pants, shoulder a musket, go out in a field and pose near some Negro pickers. When Sheriff Hogan saw the Keen photograph in his paper, he resented the implication that Warren County was holding its blacks in peonage. He set out to arrest the man with the gun. No one could identify him, so Sheriff Hogan challenged the AP to prove the picture was taken in Warren...
...Wolf. Eight-year-old Romano Mussolini, wearing the militant gear of a "Fascist Son of the Roman Wolf," invaded his father's office before the Dictator left for Bolzano. Coming to attention with his wooden musket, Moppet Mussolini cried: "Papa, I want to go and fight with Bruno and Vittorio...
...Harvard approaches its three hundredth anniversary its oldest building, Massachusetts Hall, is passing through its two hundred and fourteenth year. Somewhat abashed by its new efficiency of running water and electric lights, Mass. Hall can still recall the tinkling of glass broken by cricket balls and perhaps by Revolutionary musket balls. Built in 1720 it came into being as a result of a grant by the Province of Massachusetts to the University of 3500 pounds...