Word: fitzroy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...experiment of its kind in the country. Though its original nine members were skeptical at first, they gradually began to realize how much they had lost by clinging to the competitive tradition of each campus for itself. "Cooperation comes hard at first," says the center's administrator. Herbert Fitzroy. "But once you get everybody thinking cooperatively about one thing, they're talking cooperatively about 18 things." Eventually, four more campuses joined up, and though the center still depends on outside grants, its members* now chip in $42,000 of their own. It is money well spent. "For every...
Successful as it has been so far, Administrator Fitzroy claims that the center idea will be a must for small colleges in the future. "Some colleges." says he, "act as if they were in the 18th century, as if no good highways, telephones or modern communications exist. We ought to face the fact that the big-name institutions will be able to take care of only a limited number of the deluge of students in the next few years. We must be concerned more and more with putting the small colleges in shape to meet the deluge. This is where...
...FITZROY DAVIS...
...British sent Cloak & Dagger Agent Fitzroy Maclean (later chief of a mission to Tito, now a Conservative M.P.) to capture Zahedi. Maclean kidnaped him right under the nose of his own guard and shipped him off to Palestine for the rest of the war as a prisoner. In Zahedi's bedroom at the time of his arrest, Maclean itemized the following: a collection of German automatic weapons; some opium; a large supply of silk underwear; letters from German parachutist-agents operating in the hills; an illustrated register of the city's prostitutes...
Conservative M.P. Fitzroy (Escape to Adventure) MacLean asked the government about the "closing" of His Majesty's consulate at Tihwa, capital of Sinkiang, where China's far west meets Russia and India. Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs Ernest Davies read from a report from H.M.'s consul general at Tihwa, George Fox Holmes...