Word: pistoles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tall, blond Lieut. Commander Harold Edward Stassen, peacetime Governor of Minnesota, picked up a standard .22 target pistol at the Fort Schuyler, N.Y. Naval Training School, made 99 points out of 100. Startled onlookers learned later that he once captained the University of Minnesota's rifle team...
Died. Dr. Richard ("Diamond Dick") Tanner, 73, onetime pistol prodigy; of complications resulting from a broken leg; in Norfolk, Neb. From 16 to 35, Dick amazed Wild West show audiences (including "Buffalo Bill" Cody's) with a brace of pearl-handled .44s. In 1909 he got his M.D., practiced in Norfolk for 15 years before neighbors knew they were being treated by the old pal of "Calamity Jane" and "Pawnee Bill...
...stark, crude, unlovely shooting iron, the M-3 is nevertheless rugged, light and easy to massproduce. It coughs out a clipful of .45-caliber pistol slugs, can be fired with fair accuracy at short range (as with any submachine gun, the closer the better). Of all-metal construction, the M-3 weighs less than nine pounds, compared to twelve for the famous Thompson "tommy-gun," a standard Army weapon whose relationship to the humble M3" is approximately that of a chronometer to a dollar watch. (Even in quantity production the Thompson gun costs about $40 to make...
...always liked to play games." Mr. Tobias, "I'm going to be a muscle man yet!" Mr. Bull, "I only have to work fifteen minutes a night, my roommate. Burns, has the hot dope," (more Bull). Mr. Farrel, "I just told my roommate he could shoot the pistol as long as he wanted to if he waited to be the last man." Mr. Bunshaft, "Why didn't you mention my name last week in the column ... I need more publicity." Mr. Charpiot, "You should see the view of the country jail from our apartment." Mr. Al Harrison...
...take him home. His regular driver was off duty; by an unlucky happenstance, the new dispatcher did not know of Col-man's standing order that no Negro soldier should drive his car. At headquarters, said eyewitnesses, McRae reported: "Your car is ready, sir." Colman drew his service pistol and fired...