Word: shots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...younger daughter of the only U. S. citizen to be murdered by a Chinese during the present Chinese civil war (TIME, April 4), spoke to Manhattan reporters last week about her father, Dr. John E. Williams, who was Vice Chancellor of Nanking University at the time when he was shot in cold blood by a Chinese soldier intent on possessing Dr. Williams' watch...
...with rare discernment about the Chinese situation. She kept clear, as many have not, the distinction between the Conservative and Communist wings (now split apart) of the Chinese Nationalist party. It was a Communist Nationalist soldier fighting under the Conservative Nationalist General Chiang Kai-shek (before the split) who shot Dr. Williams. Miss Williams showed that she does not hold the Conservative general blamable, but rather looks to the Conservative Nationalist regime which he, Chiang Kaishek, has set up at Nanking, as the salvation of China...
...Johnson did the photographing. His wife, an expert shot, stood by with high-powered rifle. On one occasion, a cow elephant became distrustful of Mr. Johnson's maneuvers, charged him. Pretty Mrs. Johnson stopped the irate female with a bullet squarely between the eyes?only a few feet from the camera...
Concerning lions, Mr. Johnson said: "We came upon what was literally a virgin valley swarming with lions. They had never heard a shot fired, and treated us with the utmost indifference. Food for them was so plentiful that they even disdained the dead zebras we put out as bait, merely walking up and sniffing at the food we had provided. . . . Day after day, for weeks at a time we filmed them, getting them in groups and families of ten or fourteen at a time. Altogether we photographed 147 lions...
...point margin. Arlington placed first in the second division, leading Fairhaven by three points. Only nine events, including a half mile relay race, are listed, and individual entrants are allowed to compete only in one track and one field event and the relay. A 12 pound shot putt is the one weight event held, and instead of the usual hurdle events a special 120 yard low hurdle race is run off. The mile and two mile runs are also missing on the schedule of events...