Word: fletcherize
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...almost constantly in an asylum. During the difficult years of her illness, Eliot never spoke of her, but never failed to visit her once a week unless he was out of the country. She died in 1947. In 1957 he married his secretary at Faber & Faber, Valerie Fletcher, a plumply attractive woman nearly 40 years younger. He blossomed. They went dancing, held hands at plays. He even wrote love scenes into his last play, The Elder Statesman (they were eased out by the producer...
...Tulsa: a 14-7 victory over Mississippi, in the Bluebonnet Bowl at Houston. Tulsa Quarterback Jerry Rhome was the whole show, completing 22 out of 36 passes for 252 yds., running for the first touchdown himself, flipping a 35-yd. pass to Halfback Ed Fletcher for the winning TD. At the Atlantic City Convention Hall, site of last August's Democratic National Convention, Utah trounced West Virginia 32-6 in the Liberty Bowl-first indoor bowl game ever. The temperature was a pleasantly cool 60°, and Utah Halfback Ron Coleman was red-hot: he gained...
...Fletcher, 28 years old and the sole veternarian in Windsor, Vermont, and Tom Davis, age 27, and the president of a jumber company are not typical of the young men living in the ski country around the Twin State Valley area of Vermont and New Hampshire. Both are young, maried, college graduates, ambitious-and willing to take a financial risk...
...Fletcher, a thin, wiry individual who seems unable to stand in the same spot for more than ten seconds, explains why he and Davis took on the risk of the lodge...
...designed this place to be clean, comfortable, and something with the atmosphere of real Vermont," Fletcher says. "A place to have fun, relax, and enjoy skiing on some great slopes without shelling out a fortune. We plan on getting people here who can have a good time at a low cost, and who will keep coming back...