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...some 1,000 G.I.'s to Japanese girls in a marathon race against the expiration date of the so-called Oriental War Brides Act." So writes Nyles Bond, who is second in command at our embassy in Japan, about Jim Martin--both of whom are graduates of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy...
Situated just off Tufts campus in Medford, the Fletcher School was founded jointly by Harvard and Tufts in 1933, to "offer a broad program of professional training in international affairs to a elect group of graduate students." Its birth, however, was difficult and uncertain. When Austin B. Fletcher, president of the Tufts Board of Trustees, left a bequest of $1,000,000 for a law school, many universities were interested...
...Dean Roscoe Pound of Harvard Law took the lead and drew up a plan with President Lowell and John Cousens, president of Tufts. The exact function of the proposed school provoked a controversy over the conditions of Fletcher's will and made it necessary to petition the Massachusetts Supreme Court...
Before she died, Bessie recorded more than 160 numbers for Columbia. This week Columbia released 47 of them on four LPs, and titled them The Bessie Smith Story. Bessie's album contains some of the best jazz of her day, features such instrumentalists as Armstrong, James P. Johnson, Fletcher Henderson, Benny Goodman, Frankie Newton, Jack Teagarden. Some of the titles: St. Louis Blues, Careless Love Blues, Empty Bed Blues, Yellow Dog Blues, Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair, Gimme a Pigfoot...
...Kilty, as the Fool, is brilliant--he manages to make something out of a character that is almost impossible to put over to modern audiences. Likewise, to a lesser degree, does Paul Sparer make something out of nothing--he brings a real personality to the simple, unsubtle Kent. Robert Fletcher as Edgar and Albert Duclos as Oswald round out my list of fine jobs...