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Leafing back through its own catalogue and those of Okeh, Vocalion and Brunswick (which it controls), Columbia reissued 40 discs of oldtime hot stuff-Trumpeters Louis Armstrong and Bix Beiderbecke, Fletcher Henderson's band, Singer Bessie Smith, et al. Further Columbia reissues will enable latecomers among the jazz collectors to plug gaps in their libraries...
Among the Wylie standouts of the past season: My Client Curley, Norman Corwin's adaptation of Lucille Fletcher's tale of a fabulous dancing caterpillar. Best comedy: Jack Benny. Best western: The Lone Ranger. Best daytime serial: Pepper Young's Family. Best talk: The President's Address to the Science Congress. Best music continuities: The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street, the John Kirby Show. Best newscasters: Major George Fielding Eliot, Elmer Davis, Edward R. Murrow, William L. Shirer, Wythe Williams and Raymond Gram Swing. Best spot reporting: James Bowen's description...
...Supersuave treatment of spying in today's Balkans. Major Hugh North, U. S. Intelligence, gets stuck in a Rumanian villa where murder is liberally done for a formula. North finally finds it embroidered on the undies of Contesse di Bruno, who all the time was pert little Connie Fletcher from Kansas...
...keep students in a state of excitement about their work, to keep telling them that the worst thing they can do is to study, in the formal sense." Successor to famed Artist Grant Wood, this anti-teaching teacher is husky, slow-spoken, 36-year-old Fletcher Martin, whose drooping red mustachios make him look glummer than he is. Last week Manhattanites had a chance to see some of the examples with which Painter Martin keeps his Iowa classes excited. The Midtown Galleries put on the first all-Martin show to be seen in the East...
...Fletcher Martin was born in Colorado, son of an ambulant small-town newspaper man who made him a journeyman printer at 12. At 15, Fletcher Martin ran away, has been on the loose ever since. As a lumberman, harvester and sailor, he discovered art by drawing dirty pictures for his pals. He joined the Navy to get three squares a day, became a top-notch boxer, began painting seriously when he got out in 1926. Settling in California, he rapidly won museum awards, Federal mural jobs; had one-man shows in Los Angeles and in San Diego...