Word: fletcherize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wales scholarship, James B. Ford 2G, James Walker fellowship, Arthur F. Smullyan 1G, Christopher M. Weld scholarship, William S. McCauley, Fletcher School. Whiting fellowships to: Alfred H. Kettler, University of Texas. Wayne L. Lees 1G. Willard scholarship, Richard Ballinger, University of Texas. Jay Backus Woodworth fellowship, Ernest E. Wahlstrom, University of Colorado...
...late tea party for Herr Henlein was arranged by Laborite Harold Nicolson, M. P. Leftist Nicolson persuaded to take tea with Stooge Henlein three middleweight British Parliamentary figures notable up to now for their last-ditch championship of Anthony Eden at the time he was ousted: Lieut. Commander Reginald Fletcher (Laborite), Brigadier General Edward Louis Spears (Conservative); and Mr. Mark Patrick, former Parliamentary Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary Eden's intensely loyal Under Secretary Viscount Cranborne...
Cupboarded in Senate and House committees last week was the Harrison-Fletcher Bill, intended to wipe out the intellectual slums. The bill, which would appropriate $72,000,000 for Federal aid to education in the coming year and raise the ante to $202,000,000 by 1944, embodies the recommendations of the President's Advisory Committee on Education (TIME, March 7). Because it would permit Federal money to be used for books, bus service and scholarships for pupils in parochial (e.g., Roman Catholic) schools, it is opposed by Catholicophobes, led by Columbia University's Professor George Drayton Strayer...
...Hood himself, the picaresque story of Errol Thomson Flynn's 29 years nevertheless boils clown to this-that his mettle has come nearer the heat of genuine adventure than any other of cinema's celluloid heroes. Of the same stout Cumberland strain that produced famous Bounty Mutineer Fletcher Christian, Errol is the son of Zoologist Theodore Thomson Flynn, of Queen's University, Belfast. As a child in Ireland he played with Fletcher Christian's sword, knew his 18th-Century cousin's renown from yellowed family documents and a curly-wigged chromo that hung over...
Flynn got his first cinema job through a group of film makers who remembered him as a stalwart lad whose boat had taken them on a camera expedition up New Guinea's dangerous Sepik River. The offered role turned out to be that of Fletcher Christian, in a film to be called In the Wake of the Bounty. In an old blond wig ("which made me look like a harlot") he swaggered for a week or so at $5 a day on the poop of a grounded H. M. S. Bounty on rockers. After the completion of the film...