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Infantry Students Study Machine Gun
News Briefs
Advanced infantry students here
were recently given an indoctrina
tion course in the firing of the .30
caliber Browning machine gun.
The firing, supervised by Maj.
Thomas A. George, senior infantry
instructor, was done on a 1000-inch
rang-e. A sub-caliber device was
attached to the machine guns and
made it possible to fire .22 caliber
ammunition instead of the normal
.30 caliber ammunition.
The students also learned about
trigger manipulation for slow and
fast fire and principles of gunnery
elevation and traversing.
Joe H. Sorrels of the Civil En
gineering Department will be gen
eral chairman qf the Water and
Sewage short course to be held
here March 4-9. More than 600
persons are expected to attend.
Homer Rea of the Agronomy
Department has been elected chair
man for the coming year of S-18,
Technical Subcommittee, Southern
Regional Week Control Project.
For the first time!
Carter
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on the campus, including students
and faculty members alike, have
expressed it a rare experience. We
hope he will come back sometime.”
ern Legacy.” Hisoshqj-.t.stoyies, ar-.
tides and verse have appeared in
the Saturday Evening Post, Read
ers’ Digest, Collier’s, American
Mercury, American Magazine,
Esquii'e, New York Times Maga
zine, Look, This Week and others.
College, Carter is a member of the
Pulitzer Advisoi*y Board, the Board
of the National Citizens Commis
sion for the public schools, the
board of Peabody College for
Teachers, and of many other out
standing educational organizations.
An author as well as a journalist,
Carter has written “The Winds of
Fear,” “Flood Crest,” and “South-
IN ADDITION to having been
presented honorary degrees from
Harvard University and Bowdoin
James Buchanan was the only
U.S. president who never married.
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