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...exceptions. It may be displayed after dark for "patriotic effect." It is flown at night from forts and naval vessels which are engaged with an enemy, and also over the east and west fronts of the Capitol Building in Washington, over the grave of Francis Scott Key in Frederick, Md., and over the war memorial at Worcester, Mass., built as an architectural dramatization of the colors...
National Interfraternity Conference Chestertown, Md...
MARTHA K. WHITMORE West Hyattsville, Md...
...baseball's greatest southpaws. His equipment: control and a fireball exceeded only by the late Walter Johnson's. He won exactly 300 games (31 in his best year with the Athletics), quit baseball five years ago. Present occupation: running a combination poolroom and bowling alley at Lonaconing, Md...
Died. Lieut. General Roy Stanley Geiger, 61, grizzled, flinty-eyed pioneer Marine airman, hero of two wars ; of phlebitis and pulmonary complications; in Bethesda, Md. Naval Hospital. Forty years a leatherneck, Geiger rose from private to three-star rank, commanded all land-based aircraft which helped .turn the tide at Guadalcanal, led Marine conquests on Bougainville, Guam, Peleliu, Okinawa, became the first Marine ever to command an entire army (the U.S. 10th), on the death of General Simon B. Buckner Jr.; succeeded General Holland M. Smith as commander of the Fleet Marine Force...