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Participants in the discussion of a problem which was brought out prominently before the public early this year by the now-famous "Kinsey Report" will include: Margaret Mead, cultural anthropologist and author of "keep Your Powder Dry"; Dr. Gregory Zilboorg; and Joseph Fletcher, Professor of Social Ethics and Pastoral Theology at the Episcopal Theological School...
...days last week, the mayor of Los Angeles trudged up the 135 steps to his house on a hill high above the Hollywood Bowl. Below him was one of the great man-made sights in America: the lights of Los Angeles, stretching as far as the eye could reach. Fletcher Bowron's eyes gave the familiar scene an instant's glance. Inside his old Spanish-style house, his eyes moistened as he opened a red leather book and read a sheaf of letters in his praise. He had had an unusual day. It was his tenth anniversary...
Pudgy, petulant Fletcher Bowron was not accustomed to admiration and praise. He had lived up to the prophecy he made when he was elected: "I feel certain that I will prove an unpopular mayor." He had angered almost every important group in town-labor, the newspapers, the merchants, the oilmen, the building trades. He had feuded bitterly with his isman City Council. A reformer with a Calvinist's crusading zeal, he has driven corruption out of City Hall and the Police Department...
Peter Grahame Fletcher, an old Dover College boy, had spent his U.S. year at New Jersey's Peddie School. He preferred the English scheme of sorting the bright boys and the bumbleheads into separate forms to the American method of lumping them into an "intellectually mediocre" alloy. Fletcher considered his history teachers at Peddie too insistent on their own nationalistic opinions. ("At Dover, my history master told us to find out for ourselves who was right and who was wrong.") Charles Frederick Kinnard Dunn, who had gone from Eastbourne College to Pennsylvania's rich Hill School, was also...
...Beauteous Nancy Fletcher Choremi, 27, daughter of a U.S. career diplomat, arrested last July as a $100-a-night Manhattan call girl (and convicted on evidence obtained by wire-tapping), was let off with a three-month suspended sentence. Said the judge: "The problem of prostitution is not solved in a criminal court. It is a social, economic and moral problem...