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...U.S.C., popular Fred Fagg succeeds domineering old Rufus von KleinSmid, who in his later years has antagonized most of his faculty. But in his day Rufus von KleinSmid had been something of an administrator too: he had expanded U.S.C.'s cramped campus into a 55-acre plant with 12,000 students and one of the fattest ($12,000,000) annual budgets among U.S. universities...
U.S.C. chose big, affable, 51-year-old Fred Dow Fagg Jr., dean of the faculties at Northwestern University. Fred Fagg is an air-minded administrator whom Franklin Roosevelt once picked to reorganize the Bureau of Air Commerce. Fagg founded Northwestern's Air Law Institute, the nation's first authority on air law. When he became dean in 1939, he started to streamline Northwestern's liberal arts program. Once the university listed 600 liberal arts courses ("Before Fagg, if you wanted to learn about English literature," said a Northwestern professor last week, "you had to take a course...
...Fred Fagg believed that the faculty knew better than the student what makes a well-balanced education, and chopped away at the student elective system. He liked to drop in on lectures unexpectedly, and if he thought one was bad he told the professor so afterwards...
...bids on Yankee Clippers-airplanes three times larger than any constructed in the United States-was issued by the Pan American Airways shortly after the return to the United States of its distinguished technical adviser (1 Roscoe Turner, 2 Charles A. Lindbergh, 3 Donald Douglas, 4 Fred D. Fagg, 5 Clarence Chamberlain...
...likely successor to Director Fred Dow Fagg Jr., of the potent Bureau of Air Commerce-slated to retire next June -West Virginia's Congressman Jennings Randolph last week laid before President Roosevelt the name of Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Since Colonel Lindbergh is obviously not hounding Congressman Randolph for political patronage, the suggestion seemed to have been prompted by nothing more than a Congressman's normal appetite for publicity-except for two things: 1) Mr. Randolph's letters dwelt at length on the idea that the U. S. "must continue its world leadership" in transoceanic aviation...