Word: fletcherizers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...keep students in a state of excitement about their work, to keep telling them that the worst thing they can do is to study, in the formal sense." Successor to famed Artist Grant Wood, this anti-teaching teacher is husky, slow-spoken, 36-year-old Fletcher Martin, whose drooping red mustachios make him look glummer than he is. Last week Manhattanites had a chance to see some of the examples with which Painter Martin keeps his Iowa classes excited. The Midtown Galleries put on the first all-Martin show to be seen in the East...
...Fletcher Martin was born in Colorado, son of an ambulant small-town newspaper man who made him a journeyman printer at 12. At 15, Fletcher Martin ran away, has been on the loose ever since. As a lumberman, harvester and sailor, he discovered art by drawing dirty pictures for his pals. He joined the Navy to get three squares a day, became a top-notch boxer, began painting seriously when he got out in 1926. Settling in California, he rapidly won museum awards, Federal mural jobs; had one-man shows in Los Angeles and in San Diego...
...that as it may, right now Goodman isn't receiving half the credit he deserves. You must remember that when he organized his band in 1935, the kind of arrangements he played constituted something entirely new in jazz. Even Fletcher Henderson's great band never had the ensemble precision and bite that you heard on the old Goodman records. Fletcher, it's true, arranged most of the stuff that Benny played, but Benny and his musicians deserve the credit for doing proper justice to those arrangements, which would be worthless if played by an inferior band...
Teaching Fellows in Economics and Tuters: John E. Exter, of Oak Lawn, Illinois, A.M. Fletcher School '34; Rendigs T. Fels, of Cincinnati, Ohio, A.M. Columbia University '40; and Joseph T. Morgan, of Middletown, Ohio, A.M. '40; Teaching Fellows in Economics: Arthur G. Auble, of Ord, Nebraska M.A. Nebraska '40; Hamilton Q. Dearborn, of Springfield, M.A. Wisconsin '40; and James N. Morgan, of Evanston, Illinois, A.B. Northwestern...
...Outlines of Astronomy," Dr. Fletcher G. Watson, Mondays and Fridays, 7:30 to 9 P. M., at Astronomical Laboratory, 11 Jarvis street...