Part 11 (1/2)
Friends, however, who believe that the world should know so sidelights on his career:
Browning cooff into the woods for a un for coun carrying a es, which could be fired rapidly in succession He pounded out the parts for his first rapid-fire gun with hammer and cold chisel
Since that tiuns, autoest firear's products
The United States ar pistol iuium, Russia, Spain, Italy and Serbia
On completion of the one- Albert of Belgiuhted the
Browning is tall, slender, slightly stooped, 62, bald except for a riray moustache His face iswill not talk of hi when the conversation is turned on guns
”I always think of a gun as soun is the siun up with a lot of fancy contraptions and 'safety devices,' you are only inviting trouble You complicate the rit to clog the action
”You can 's new guns it is not, of course, perht rapid-fire gun, weighing only 15 pounds, which can be fired froazine carries 20 rounds and the eazine can be detached and another substituted by pressing a button
The heavier gun is a belt-fed h it is water-cooled, it weighs, water jacket and all, only 28 pounds For airplane work, where the firing is in bursts and the speed of the un weighs only 20 pounds
Both guns are counted upon as valuable additions to the equipment of our overseas forces
THE NARRATIVE IN THE THIRD PERSON Although the interview, the personal experience article, and the confession story are largely narrative, they are always told in the first person, whereas the term ”narrative article” as used in this classification is applied only to a narrative in the third person In this respect it is more like the short story As in the short story so in the narrative article, description of persons, places, and objects involved serves to heighten the effect
Narrative roup of facts that can be arranged in chronological order
A process, for exaaged in the work involved, and by giving each step in the process as though it were an incident in a story The story of an invention or a discovery may be told from the inception of the idea to its realization A political situationthe events that led up to it The workings of some institution, such as an employ just what takes place in it on a typical occasion Historical and biographical material can best be presented in narrative for adventure, vivid description, conversation, and all the other devices of the short story may be introduced into narrative articles to increase the interest and strengthen the iiven a narrative foruard against exaggeration and the use of fictitious details
EXAMPLES OF THE NARRATIVE ARTICLE How narration with descriptive touches and conversation may be effectively used to explain a new institution like the co employed in the army, is shown in the two articles below The first was taken from the _New York World_, and the second from the _Outlook_
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NOW THE PUBLIC KITCHEN
BY MARIE COOLIDGE RASK
The Community Kitchen Menu
+--------------------------------------------------+ | Vegetable soup pint, 3 | | Beef stew half pint, 4 | | Baked beans half pint, 3 | | Two frankfurters, one potato and cup full of | | boiled cabbage all for 7 | | Rice pudding, 3 Stewed peaches 3 | | Coffee or cocoa with milk half pint,3 | +--------------------------------------------------+
”My etable soup”
”And h beef stew for three of us”
Two battered tin pails were handed up by ser little faces were upturned toward the top of the bright green counter which loouish eyes smiled back at the woman who reached over the counter and took the pails
”The beef steill be twelve cents,” she said ”It is four cents for each half pint, you know”