Word: fletcherizers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Diana Barrymore, actress-daughter of the late, great profile, tripped to Las Vegas, Nev. for a divorce from Actor Bramwell Fletcher. First she had a send-off celebration in Los Angeles. It was almost as gay as the party last winter at which she slapped a man eight times (TIME, Jan. 28). Her escort, a tennis pro named John Howard, slapped Cinemactress Anne Sterling-"just one of those unfortunate things," he said. She had slapped him first, said Howard. Actress Sterling said no-"I'd be awfully silly to hit a big man like John." Tennist Howard and Actress...
Louis' first New York job was in 1924 with Fletcher Henderson's famed band at Roseland Ballroom, just five blocks from the Aquarium. His early records (West End Blues, etc.) were bigger hits in Europe than in the U.S. He followed them across the Atlantic in 1931. Those were the days when he blew screeching high notes that he probably could not make consistently today. When he hit 280 high Cs and then slid up into F one evening, a London theater manager begged him to cut it to 70 Cs, because the noise made him nervous while...
...Fletcher Harris Johnson...
...Fletcher Pratt performed a public service when he exposed the Army and Navy's fraudulent press relations and censorship practices [TIME, Feb. 11] during World War II. . . . Actually, the Navy has no concept of public relations. One Annapolis arrogant thought [the term] meant kinfolk on charity...
Legal foundations for the war crime trials taking place in Nuremburg will be presented tonight by Colonel Murray Bernays, advisor to Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, and Leo Gross, professor of International Law at Tufts' Fletcher School, in New Lecture Hall at 8 o'clock...