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About 250 members and guests attended the seventh annual dinner of Baltimore, Md., A.A. in the grand ballroom of the Lord Baltimore Hotel. Non-A.A. speakers and guests included the Rev. Thomas Guthrie Speers of Brown Memorial church, Dr. Edward Kerman, T. J. S. Waxter, director of public welfare of Baltimore, Warden Price of the state penitentiary, Lonnie Staar of Station WFBR, Dr. John Krantz, head of the University of Maryland School of Pharmacology, Dr. John Evans, Dr. Hood, superintendent of Perry Point Veterans' Hospital and Dr. Ayd, psychiatrist of the same hospital and specialist on alcoholism. Guests were present from Philadelphia, Washington, Wilmington, Hanover, Los Angeles, New York, Richmond, Alexandria and other cities.