Word: aubrey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...property is urgently required in the national interest." St. John's suggested that Annapolis could expand just as well by crossing College Creek on its north, leaving St. John's alone. The president of the American Institute of Architects gave supporting testimony. But Vice Admiral Aubrey Fitch, the Academy's superintendent, does not want his men to have to march too far between classes and dormitories. Said he: "There is no other tract of land comparable to the St. John's acreage." When a four-striper, Captain Theodore Wirth, said that the Academy has its traditions...
...Angeles two hardy perennials, a heat wave and a crime wave, tied for top local billing. The Scripps-Howard Washington News began to berate the Army for its slowness in demobilizing. Said Managing Editor Aubrey Graves: "Now that the war's over, the Army's fair game." Everywhere editors played strikes heavily...
...esthetic followers of "art for art's sake," Henley's boisterous, often crude vitality seemed both stupid and frightening. Esthete Aubrey Beardsley was so terrified by his first glimpse of the "pirate" that he turned and ran for his life. Arch-esthete Oscar Wilde was made of sterner stuff. In a scathing review of Henley's hospital poems (whose occasional beauties, said Oscar, were "very refreshing [bits] of affectation in a volume where there is so much that is natural"), he opened a running fight with Henley that lasted nearly 20 years. The fight ended indecisively...
Some 3,000 midshipmen will march from their grey stone barracks at Annapolis next week to hear handsome, ur bane Vice Admiral Aubrey Fitch open the ceremonies celebrating the U.S. Naval Academy's 100th year. There will be light moments, a "hop" in Dahlgren Hall. But essentially it will be an occasion for prayer ful thought both in the Chapel and the Administration Building next door...
Vice Admiral Aubrey W. Fitch, a 62-year-old flyer, had just taken command of the Naval Academy at Annapolis. Now the Army countered with a new West Point superintendent: Major General Maxwell D. Taylor, 44, commander of the loist Airborne Division. Handsome Missouri-born General Taylor, who speaks fluent French, Spanish and Japanese, will be the youngest Military Acaeemy head since young (39) Douglas Mac Arthur took over the Point in 1919. Taylor graduated fourth in his class the last year MacArthur was there...