Word: fletcherizers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fletcher M. Green, Visiting Lecturer on American History, has returned to the University of North Carolina after completion of his lectures during the past summer and winter terms. Professor Green's courses were History 5a, History 65a, History 65b, and History 165b...
...Battle of Midway, Halsey was ailing and unavailable. Nimitz sent Raymond Ames Spruance out first with two carriers, then Frank Jack Fletcher with the Yorktown. As senior, Fletcher took overall command, but when the Yorktown retired from the fight, crippled, Spruance carried on. The victory ended the Jap threat to Hawaii, the Panama Canal and the U.S. itself. It was the turning point of the Pacific war. In announcing the triumph, Nimitz punned: "We are about midway to our objective...
THIRD FLEET Reese (Dodgers) ss. Grace (Browns) If. McCosky (Tigers) cf. Fletcher (Braves) Ib. Woodling (Indians) rf. Herman (Dodgers) 2b. May (Phillies) 3b. Smith (Pirates) c. Rigney (White Sox)-p. White (Tigers)p. Trexler (Braves...
Head of the school is able Dr. Halford L. Hoskins. onetime dean (1933-44) of Tufts College's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Faculty members include such practicing experts as John Newbold Hazard. FEA authority on Russia, John S. Dickey, director of the State Department's Office of Public Affairs, Herbert Feis, economic consultant to the War Department. They do most of their teaching in seminars. Maximum enrollment has been tentatively set at 130. Students may attend from a few months to two years. At present they range in age from 20 to 46 (average...
...play after it had been made into a movie, and went to Broadway after it had toured the country. Unfortunately, its reverses do not stop there. On the stage, the well-known tale of the haunting influence of Maxim de Winter's dead first wife on himself (Bramwell Fletcher), his new bride (Diana Barrymore), his grim housekeeper (Florence Reed) and his great oppressive house casts only a faint and fitful spell. The long, dusky, atmospheric tunnel through which, as book and movie, Rebecca advanced upon its melodramatic climax is here only a dry uphill path. And the melodrama itself...