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...neither staff, students nor furniture-"just six files and me." He still had a great deal of remodeling to do to get ready for Michaelmas term in October. Then, "after getting all the drains settled," he would have to pick a permanent committee of British and French scholars to select his students...
...universities will select the fellows in accordance with their established policies. Fellows will not be restricted in their choice of position after the fellowship has expired...
Thirty-one freshmen, 17 sophomores, and 11 juniors are running and biographies of all candidates appear on page six. House committee chairmen will select three men apiece to count the ballots in Phillips Brooks House tonight...
...Hardy & Hunted." In Egypt Maclean joined the S.A.S. (Special Air Service), a select, hand-picked force of parachute commandos who were dropped into the North African desert to destroy enemy installations. In 1942, Maclean, by then a captain, was sent to Persia, where in broad daylight he kidnaped Collaborationist General Zahidi and popped him into a plane bound for Palestine. It was ro wonder that when Prime Minister Churchill asked for the appointment of "a daring Ambassador-leader" to contact Tito's "hardy and hunted guerrillas," the choice fell on parachuting Brigadier Fitzroy Maclean...
Another resolution asked the Republican Party in Massachusetts to "select a slate giving broad racial, religious, and regional representation...