Word: fitzroy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weaving city of Lancaster (pop. 50,250) has lost most of the glamour and importance that clung to its name in the days of John of Gaunt and the Wars of the Roses. But it cherishes today one spectacular bloom in the person of its dashing Tory M.P., Brigadier Fitzroy Maclean, 39, whose recently published bestseller, Eastern Approaches, has made its author one of the most popular political figures in the United Kingdom...
...with White Ties. This destiny was invisible to Fitzroy Maclean when, in 1936, aged 25, he sat sullenly at a British embassy desk in Paris and decided that he had already had a bellyful of life as a conventional diplomat-"those pinstriped suits from Scholte; those blue and white shirts, from Beale and Inman, with their starched collars . . . big official dinner parties, with white ties and decorations . . ." Rushing to diplomacy's opposite extreme, Maclean became "the first member of the service" ever to plead to be transferred to "such a notoriously unpleasant post" as the British embassy in Moscow...