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Flautist's Kampf. Among many prominent Pierians was first violin Nicholas Longworth (also member of the Porcellian Club), later Speaker of the House of Representatives. At the same time (1890) Liberal Journalist Oswald Garrison Villard (also member of the Deutscher Verein) played second fiddle...
LONDON--A special Russian communique said tonight that the Red Army on the northern front had liquidated the German garrison at Demyansk, in the Lake limen area, and had freed it and 302 other localities...
When the Japanese first took Lae and Salamaua early in 1942, an Australian garrison fell back to the Wau area, and held it all through the year, even after the Japs moved to Buna. Fortnight ago, when Jap patrols infiltrated to Wau, as they have infiltrated many areas even on the south coast of New Guinea, the Allies flew reinforcements to the little Wau field -which had suddenly become more valuable than the gold it was built to carry out. The Jap patrols were pushed back...
WASHINGTON--Eight Jap destroyers trying to blast their way through the American blockade with reinforcements and supplies for the starving enemy garrison on Guadalcanal were attacked by U.S. motor torpedo boats which hit one vessel and scored three possible hits on two others, the Navy said today...
...Citadel traces its origins to the tense 1820s, when South Carolina feared a slave rebellion. A garrison at first, The Citadel became a military college in 1842 after South Carolina, filled with growing Nullification spirit, asked that federal troops be withdrawn from the state...