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...R.O.T.C., save time by applying tricks of their trade, e.g.: they find that students catch on faster when they explain the principles of physics underlying correct body positions for shooting a rifle. At the end of a 15-hour course, taught by English Professor Norman F. Maclean, onetime forest ranger, four out of five of the Institute's marksmanship students qualify as small-bore "expert riflemen...
...Wake a tiny band of Marines made more of the Corps's imperishable history that had its beginnings in the fighting tops of John Paul Jones's Ranger and Bon Homme Richard. They had been there since the first day of war, beating off attack after attack by the Jap. shooting down his planes, sinking his surface ships, probably knocking the spots out of his landing parties. It was "probably" because Wake's Marines-well-trained rifle marksmen, as all leathernecks are-were busy at their prime calling. Between fighting they had little time for dispensing news...
...rumpled man with cantilever mustach was giving the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Ships plenty to brood about. Greying William Starling Burgess, designer of America's Cup defenders (Enterprise, Rainbow and Ranger), whipper-upper of the automobile-engined Sea Otter (TIME, Sept. 29), had turned up with another ship innovation...
American League is considered a minor league mainly because its franchises are cheaper and its salaries lower. Favorite to win the title for the fourth successive year are the Cleveland Barons, owned by Cleveland Inkman Albert Sutphin and managed by Bill Cook, onetime Ranger star. For several years, the National League has tried to get Cleveland to join its lopsided seven-team loop. But Owner Sutphin has turned a deaf...
Other American League teams with large followings: the brand-new Washington Lions, managed by Ching Johnson, onetime Ranger star; the Philadelphia Rockets, managed by Danny Cox, another famed old Ranger; the Springfield (Mass.) Indians, not only managed but owned by Eddie Shore, the bruising old Boston Bruin, for more than a decade the biggest crowd puller of them...