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...There must be no drinking whatsoever," declared tight-lipped General Charles Pelot ("Fight 'Em All") Summerall, retired U. S. Army Chief of Staff, when in 1931 he assumed the presidency of The Citadel, South Carolina's military college at Charleston. General Summerall's order was at once amplified by The Citadel's Commandant, Lieut. Colonel John Walton Lang, who announced that no cadet might "carry, transport, move, hold, possess, own, have . . . receive, accept, give, offer, sell, buy, or drink" any intoxicating liquors...
...Citadel cadets admire Commandant Lang no less than they do General Summerall. They jovially said: "It's a Lang time between drinks." They went on drinking...
Last week Commandant Lang took further steps. He asked Federal prohibitors and Charleston authorities to help keep spirits away from The Citadel. While the cadets were away for their holidays, chicken wire was stretched over the campus gates. Cadets returning from leave must doff their greatcoats, open all their bundles for inspection...
...details that the editors of the Transcript excel. They immure themselves in a citadel on Newspaper Row which has the flavor of Lamb's India House. There the crisp First National Bank efficiency which characterizes the Boston Herald is not to be found, nor yet the cinematic evidences of Fourth Estateliness which earmark the Boston American as Hearst's. In the crumbly, musty, sooty, comfortable rookery, of the Transcript there is something that reminds the Vagabond at once of Mark Twain, of Horace Greeley, and of Beacon Street. Such a milieu creates an atmosphere most favorable to the production...
Both young women liked work & study. Together they left the Kremlin Citadel early, four days out of five, fought for places on Moscow's crowded tramcars and were jolted to scientific schools in which they learned to "build Socialism...