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...Admiral Nimitz could thank his task-force commanders, sea dogs like bushy-browed Vice Admiral William Frederick Halsey Jr., a naval aviator who knows the potency of the swift attack, sighted and powered from the air; and scholarly Rear Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher, who helped give the Jap a mauling in the Marshall Islands raids. These and others were the men who carried out his tasks: broad-stripers like Vice Admiral Robert Lee Ghormley, new commander in New Zealand, and Vice Admiral Wilson Brown, onetime Superintendent of the Naval Academy and now Commander of the Pacific Scouting Force...
...member, had $17,000,000 profits. United's outlets were the 568 directly owned stores of the Liggett chain, some 10,000 "Rexall" independents. The grandiose Drug, Inc. merger contained many a great manufacturing name -Vick Chemical, Sterling Products (Bayer's Aspirin, Phillips Milk of Magnesia, Fletcher's Castoria), Life Savers, Bristol-Myers (Sal Hepatica, Rubberset brushes, Ipana). But the vital retail end limped almost from the start. Long-term leases put Liggett into bankruptcy in March 1933. Thereupon the big manufacturers, long restless and dissatisfied, un-merged the combine and each went its own way. Enough...
Cartoonist Gross's recent excursion into landscape was prompted by Painter Fletcher Martin (TIME, Nov. 25, 1940), who was in Hollywood two years ago teaching Gross and an assortment of Hollywood columnists and photographers serious...
Headed by Dr. Fletcher, the project was studied by S. Smith Stevens, assistant professor of Psychology, and Dr. Hallowell Davis, associate professor of Physiology...
...projects of the National Defense Research Council, the siren problem was brought to Harvard by Dr. Harvey Fletcher, director of physical research at the Bell Laboratories under the arrangement whereby Harvard facilities are opened to research of this nature...