Word: md
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Host and demonstrator at the Aberdeen (Md.) Proving Ground was hard, white-haired, tank-wise Colonel John K. Christmas.* The day was cold and raw; the red Maryland clay was muddy underfoot. Colonel Christmas said that he would let the model speak for itself. Then he turned toward the tank, sulking 400 yards away on a slight rise, and waved his right arm. There was dead quiet for perhaps ten seconds. Then M3 turned loose a horizontal stream of red death, directed towards a silhouette target 900 yards away. From the muzzles of four .30-caliber machine guns spurted bright...
...Berlin, Md., morning after burglars rifled a show-windowful of his wares, E. H. Benson put up a sign: Even thieves know good jewelery...
Died. Brigadier General Frederic E. Humphreys, retired, 57, first Army officer to fly solo in a military plane (at College Park, Md., Oct. 26, 1909); after a heart attack; in Miami Beach...
...proved out-at least we are . . . married and the advertising is being changed." Marriage Revealed. Hilda Jane Lehman, 19, adopted daughter of New York's Governor Herbert H. Lehman; and Boris de Vadetsky, 27, onetime WPA actor, World War II ambulance driver; after eloping to Elkton, Md., Dec. 1. The Governor, declared his secretary, knew his son-in-law "only slightly." Died. C. Harold Wills, 62, automotive pioneer and founder of the old Wills...
Others officers for the coming year include Bowden Broadwater '42 of Oakland, Md. and 53 Mt. Auburn St., Pegasus; John Bottomly '43 of Jamaica Plain and Dunster House, Business Manager; Frederick A. Jacobi '43 of Northampton, Mass. and Lowell House, Circulation Manager...