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...north the Rock's sheerest face rises above a flat sandy neck, where the British troops drill and play rugby in peacetime. This bit of ground is too small for an airfield and is separated by heavy barbed wire and land mines from the border town of La Linea de la Concepcion alive with Spanish artillery, troops and prostitutes. From this quarter even a horde of German shock troops would have difficulty storming the British guns trained from camouflaged, cement-lined galleries that are cut deep enough (by General Sir Edmund Ironside, the Rock's former commandant...
Last fortnight, on a lush campus in the swank Rydal section north of Philadelphia, a battalion of 150 uniformed girls, toting wooden rifles, marched in precise military review. It was Ogontz School's commencement day. Military drill has been a feature of Ogontz training since 1890. The late General Thomas D. Landon, commander of neighboring Bordentown (N. J.) Military Institute, who inaugurated military training at Ogontz and drilled the girls until 1935, held the view that you never knew when Amazons would come in handy...
...opinion of the girls' Bostonian Principal Abby Sutherland, 64, the drill is given to "cultivate poise, grace, better posture," to inculcate "cooperation, coordination, leadership, and loss of self-consciousness ... a very democratic thing, you know." Calculated to cultivate a more essential poise is Ogontz' popular course on babies, held in "Lares," a completely furnished model home. Each fall, the girls study, coddle and raise a two-month-old foundling until Easter, when it goes back to its mother or foster parent. Last year's baby was Betty Jones, whom the girls dubbed "Betty Jogontz...
...State will have a certain quota of volunteers to fill. If war occurs, men will be called by the county societies as they are needed. There will be no haphazard enlistment of individual doctors, as in World War I. Nor will doctors have to learn how to march and drill, as they...
...Street Journal, if I had had $50,000 in cash money, a man sure would have had to twist my arm a long time to make me offer an offer like that, but it was just a case of I figured that the oil was there, I had the drill rigs and the equipment, the drillers and roughnecks wanted to go to work but it took collective money because it had to be cash money...