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Reconversion. In Dublin, N.H., in the widely popular "Swoppers" column of the magazine Yankee, one advertiser offered the Harvard Classics for a shotgun, another the complete works of Balzac for a .22 automatic pistol...
Never Say Live. In Santa Ana, Calif., Albertina Merriman, 72, shot herself three times with a pistol, turned on the gas, sliced herself with a razor, finally succeeded with a shotgun...
...your July 23 issue you say a Fort Benning corporal "picked up a 57-mm. cannon . . . aimed it as casually as a shotgun . . . demolished a cordwood target 800 yards away." Secret of the kickless cannon: a backward powder blast through the breach-"a fiery column 12 to 15 ft. long, about 4 ft. in diameter...
...Fort Banning last week a corporal picked up a 57-mm. cannon (which ordinarily weighs 3,000 lbs.), and aimed it as casually as a shotgun. He fired a 2¼-lb. projectile (more than 2 in. in diameter) which demolished a cordwood target 800 yards away. The weight of this cannon: 45 Ibs. There was not enough recoil "to move the skin on my shoulder...
...eight-year-old Texas boy with a smoking shotgun in his hand was found fast asleep on the foot of the bed where his mother lay dead of a shotgun wound...