Word: fletcherizers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Colonel Murray Bernays, advisor to Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, and Leo Gross, professor of International Law at Tufts' Fletcher School, will speak on the war crimes trials Friday evening at the first of a series of Law School forums. The forum will be held in the New Lecture Hall at 8 o'clock...
From behind the thick-lensed glasses that give him a Martian rather than a martial appearance, Military Expert Fletcher Pratt last week shot a pained backward look at the war he had helped to report. Critic H. L. Mencken, who only knew what he read in the papers, had called its war correspondents "a sorry lot" (TIME, Jan. 14). Expert Pratt, a correspondent himself, is convinced that World War II "was very nearly the worst reported war in history." But he turned the blame elsewhere...
...Manhattan, Leon James and Fletcher Rivers, ex-partners in a vaudeville act called Moke & Poke, settled their dispute over rights to the title, went their separate ways with new partners -billed as Coke & Poke and Moke & Doke...
...Guessing that McCarthy might be through, New York sportswriters began nominating possible successors: Yankee Coach Art Fletcher (unlikely), Manager Leo Durocher, of the Dodgers (possible) and ex-Yankee Lieut. Bill Dickey, now managing two crackerjack Navy teams touring the Pacific (popular). Babe Ruth nominated himself...
...hour was musician's midnight (9 a.m.). Hulking, disheveled Roger "Brick" Fleagle-an ace arranger for such name bands as Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, Jimmie Lunceford-lumbered into the studio, stared at his unshaven assemblage and lazily "sparked" (alerted) them with his pinkie finger. They played a few tired bars to warm up. Then Brick, his barrel-stomach protruding under a striped sweat shirt, gave his final orders: "We'll take SOS [Same Old Sheaves]. On the last two bars, Charlie, make it bumpa, bumpa, some Charleston, then a brrrrooom. O.K., we're rolling...