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...Treasury Alarm, Jocelyn Davey's fifth Usher novel, Ambrose is in the exotic city of Boston to deliver a series of lectures at nearby Harvard. The Treasury-"the innerest of inner circles" -asks him to look over an improper Bostonian named George Fletcher, who is busily gobbling up key British companies, possibly for the Soviets. Usher had known and much disliked the conglomerator in his days as an economic attache to the British embassy in Washington (A Capitol Offense). He had also known and much liked Fletcher's wacky, lovely wife Gloria, who died driving...
...happenstance is Usher's discovery that Gloria Fletcher had in fact been killed by her tycoon husband. The don also finds out that Fletcher is a front man for John P. Harrigan, godfather of Boston's Irish Mafia, whose laundered money is being used for suspicious purchases abroad. Through the delectable Alyss Summers, an art historian, Usher learns that Harrigan has stolen a Donatello statue of St. John the Baptist, as well as a relic of the saint, from a church in Siena. Between lectures Usher gets involved in a gang war, a stratagem to rescue the Donatello...
DIED. Russell Procope, 72, dapper, goateed jazz clarinetist and saxophonist who was a fixture in the Duke Ellington Orchestra; in New York City. After playing with Chick Webb, Fletcher Henderson and the John Kirby Sextet, Procope joined the Duke in 1945, bringing his low, mellow sound to such Ellington compositions as 4:30 Blues and Swamp...
...Fletcher was chosen for its prestige," Marasigan said. "The money was specially for that school. Marcos will not donate the funds to any other university...
Critical editorials in the Tufts student newspaper, along with mild faculty objections to the chair, upset the Marcos's, a professor at the Fletcher school who asked not to be identified said yesterday, but he added that negative reaction in larger American newspapers and a tight economy in the Philippines exacerbated the situation...