Word: fletcherize
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...went to Mundelein College in Chicago and was married soon after graduation to a boy "whose father was a minister, and I thought that sounded nice and permanent. We went to Mexico to live like Tolstoy." The marriage did not last, nor did her second one, to Fletcher Markle, once the young wizard of Canadian broadcasting. Her personal life, in fact, has been a long bout with a troubled psyche. A little over a year ago, her 20-year-old son was nearly killed by four attacking thugs, and soon after recovering he was back in the hospital, near death...
Labor Candidate Will Howie, 39, a neat, bespectacled civil engineer, won out over Tory Sir John Fletcher-Cooke, 52, a tweedy, mustached former colonial administrator, by promising Luton the new schools, housing and industrial expansion that Labor is pragmatically building its election hopes around. Before returning to London for Parliament's reopening this week, Douglas-Home, the new M.P. for Kinross, remained professionally optimistic: "Luton was the last page of the old chapter. Kinross is the first page...
...down in Australia, the world's reigning tennis champions are preparing an ambush for the invading Americans. Roy Emerson, no long stale, and Ken Fletcher, no longer inexperienced, are backed up by Fred Stolle, whose flame-thrower serve took him to the Wimbledon final against McKinley In addition, there is talk of reactivating Neale Fraser, whose canny court sense helped Australia hold the Davis Cup for five years Fraser is still only 29, and he held every major tennis title at some time before retiring early last year...
...Australia was so deep in first-rank tennis players that it hardly made a difference; next year's wave would be just as devastating. Last week Australia had to be content with a one-man wave and a wavelet-second-seeded Roy Emerson and fifth-seeded Ken Fletcher. Emerson won at Forest Hills back in 1961 but lost this year at Wimbledon...
...American Shakespeare Festival, in opening its ninth season, has chosen its toughest nut to crack. Under Allen Fletcher's careful direction. Lear (only slightly trimmed) has emerged as a powerful theatrical experience. Despite its shortcomings, the production firmly gives the lie to those who maintain that Lear can exist only in a reader's imagination...