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Five-foot eleven-inch Bill Biggs, the shortest man among the Big Green starters, is the team's other high scorer. The rest of the first string includes guard Kent Calhoun, and forwards Fred Gleg and Roger Pierce...
...Bobby Reiss, has returned, along with the playmaker and this year's captain. Al Stein. These two will team at the guards, with another letterman, Paul Brandt. Sophomore Ed Lehman, who averaged over 15 points on his freshman team, will play at the other forward position. Six food seven inch Dick Johnson will be the other starter in the center pivot...
...pinging off a tank at 400 yds. without a miss. In target contests, the new .30-cals. poured out fire twice as fast and just as accurately as the Army's standard 30-cal. M-1 Garand rifle. At 100 yds., their steel-core slugs plowed through half-inch armor plate; at 1,200 yds. they riddled a steel helmet; at 2,000 yds. they ripped through six inches of wooden planking. Fitted with 20-shot clips, the new automatic rifles could rattle off their entire magazines in less than two seconds. When the demonstration was over, even such...
...Great Britain went off in different directions in search of such a weapon. U.S. Ordnance men decided that the standard .30-cal. slug was the smallest size with enough stopping power. They got to work on a light-weight cartridge (the T-65) that was half an inch shorter than the standard Garand cartridge and weighed about 16% less, without sacrificing any weight in the bullet itself. The light rifle* that they built around the stubby new shell fires as heavy a slug with the same muzzle velocity (about 2,800 ft. per second) as the Garand, but weighs...
During a two-year period, 30 three-column, ten-inch ads drew 6,726 requests for the course. Of these, says Father Fitzgerald, 248 people either joined the Roman Catholic Church or began personal instruction with a priest. The cost to the Paulists: slightly less than $40 a convert, which, compared with the "colossal" cost of operating a parochial school, "brings out very well the reasonableness of educating . . . people in the Catholic religion through the Correspondence Home Study Course." Indeed, writes Father Fitzgerald, the combination of newspaper ads and home study has proved itself "perhaps the chief means today...