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Davidson has lost five games and won but one this years. Playing in the southeastern conference with Presbyterian and Citadel, it winds up the season against North Carolina and Georgie Tech. In 1937 the Crimson played Davidson...
...citadel of American education, however, will not be so lax in examining him as an athlete. An exhaustive perusal of his gridiron pedigree ensues, under the guidance of Lloyd Jordan, who, Mr. Bender notwithstanding, seems to be our new director of admissions. In addition, we have such nauseating stunts as entertaining entire prep school football teams at one of our Saturday afternoon flascos, a device calculated to lure scholar-athletes by evoking their feelings of pity...
...Quebec's old stone Citadel, the Boston Post's Grace Davidson managed to push her way into a reception for Princess Elizabeth and ended up shaking hands with her. This was enough to give Reporter Davidson a Post "exclusive" on how "I was presented to the Princess Elizabeth today." But most of the other British, Canadian and U.S. reporters covering Elizabeth and Philip's tour last week had no such luck. Many of the reporters might just as well have stayed home, for all the stories they...
...Service Is Not Exclusive." The citadel of Conservative Judaism is the Jewish Theological Seminary, and Rabbi Finkelstein has been its president for eleven years. With his flashing eyes, floating hair and black beard heavily streaked with grey, he looks, at 56, like a reasonable modern facsimile of an Old Testament patriarch. Sometimes he talks like one, sometimes like the scholar he is-and sometimes like the successful fund-raiser that...
...Bill Boyle was no longer police director. He moved over to the Pendergast redoubt at City Hall, became commissioner of street cleaning. A reform mayor fired him in 1940, and he moved again: this time to the job of assistant prosecuting attorney in the county courthouse, the last Pendergast citadel. It was dull work; his main assignment was to take confessed criminals before the court to enter guilty pleas. "To my knowledge," said Bill's good friend, Lawyer Shannon Douglas, later, "Bill never tried a single case in Kansas City. What that boy needed...