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...Mastodons have a massive line, averaging well over 200 pounds. Former JV lettermen Clark Cowen and Ames Stevens hold down the left side of the line, with heavyweight wrestler Larry Johanson and Pugh playing right tackle and guard. Dugald Fletcher is the offensive center, with 240-pound Whitey Black on defense. Major Close and Myles Herter are the pass-catching ends, with Jim Fleming spelling Herter on defense. Ed and Sum White, Herron Morris, and Bob Cohen are reserve linemen...
...Wyck Mason was Rouner's cox, with Nick Brown at seven, his brother, Lee Rouner, at six, Al Rieselbach at five, Phil Dubois at four, Bill Bliss--filling in for Win Whitman--at three, Dugald Fletcher...
...York's Harper brothers-James, John, Joseph Wesley and Fletcher -had made a name for themselves* in the book-publishing business, still had some idle press time on their hands. To keep presses and employees profitably busy they started Harper's New Monthly Magazine, a sort of undigested Reader's Digest of fiction of the day, bought the galley proofs of the current works of Dickens, Thackeray, Trollope and other English greats, and ran them as serials. Overnight, Harper's became a success. Literary Americans became such fans of the magazine, not only for its fiction...
...Henry Fletcher's "Mountain of Zermatt" is a simple narrative. The writing throughout is capable and in several places reaches excellence. "Late Adventure," by Frank O'Hara, suffers considerably by comparison with the other two stories. The subject matter is not well suited to the length in which it is handled. The characters are not too adroitly sketched, and an interesting idea fails to receive adequate development...
Although they only rate a half-share in the business, the women members -- Mrs. Sara Harkness and Mrs. Jean Bodman Fletcher--have an important part in Architects Collaborative's work. Mrs. Fletcher herself graduated from the School of Architecture...