Word: fletcherizers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They spend 15 minutes a day five times a week dramatizing the failure of the butcher to deliver the meat, the business of buying a Christmas present for the boss, the question of closed barbershops on Sunday, etc. They, plus their adopted son Russell, plus Uncle Fletcher, an absentminded, somewhat deaf, minutely anecdotal citizen, are the chief characters in the show. But the actors who play these four talk about an odd assortment of town characters who never appear...
Speakers for the evening were as follows: Robert Rankin, Simmons College, Chairman; Warren S. Tryon, Simmons College; Veit Valentin, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; and Saville Davis, Christian Science Monitor. Such forums are held under the auspices of the Harvard College Observatory...
Also on board was the New York Times's Meyer Berger, one of the most professional of U.S. reporters. He stayed with the train until it reached Fletcher General Hospital in Cambridge, Ohio, watching the faces of the wounded, listening to their talk as they came nearer & nearer home. It was a memorable ride. Next day Reporter Berger sent his newspaper a story which well & truly evoked the heartbreaking feelings of the returning soldier...
Sued for Divorce. Fletcher Martin, 39, Thomas Hart Benton's successor as chairman of the Kansas City Art Institute's painting department; by Maxine June Ferris Martin, 28, onetime Iowa hospital supervisor; after two years of marriage (his third, her first), ten months of separation; in Kansas City...
Meanwhile, Link jots it all down as research, while Teammate Fletcher Marvin (Franchot Tone) wraps it up for the air, and the U.S. is swept by the greatest family-program in history. Bonnie is swept too: one way by Marvin, a chronic wolf-another by Link, who is much too worried about what will happen when the family hears the program to notice Bonnie's new dress. In the long run come discovery, anger and pain, a slash of real pathos from Pop Moore, mollification through the drunken delights of notoriety, and an ultimate regaining of everybody...