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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowd surged back, then forward. A taxi driver named Leonard Weisberg leaped on the prone gunman. He grabbed for the revolver, missed. Esposito jerked it back a few inches, fired again. Weisberg, clutching his throat, gasping for breath, fell to the sidewalk...
Since his indictment last spring, Mr. Hopson had not been well. He expected to blow up and burst, was prone to a sensation of "wandering around about through cellars and basements," had to be bathed by force. Doctors found him to be suffering from involutional melancholia and depressive psychosis. But to Hugh A. Fulton, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, this was just another Hopson dodge to escape justice. After months of confab, Government medicos declared him legally fit to defend himself...
...less intense than John Ford's, the endless incidents aboard ship without benefit of plot may seem to drag in spite of honest acting, deft direction, superb photography and Richard Hageman's salty musical score. Best shot: the Glencairn's crew plastered prone on the ship's deck, with only the roar of Stukas, the splash of bombs on the water, the splatter of machine-gun bullets on the white canvas to indicate a Nazi bombing raid...
...score of 3,187 out of a possible 3,200, was New Haven's Dave Carlson, 26-year-old apprentice toolmaker, who joined a junior rifle club when he was 15, was high man on the U. S. team that outshot 21 other nations in the 50-metre (prone) event at the 1937 world's championships at Helsinki...
...calibre championship (with service rifle at all distances and all positions) attracts the largest entry. In a field of 1,705, shooting from 200 to 1,000 yards (prone, kneeling, standing), Sergeant William J. Coffman (U. S. Infantry) of Camp Ord, Calif, shot the sharpest: 289 out of a possible...