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...FLETCHER COAXES Director National Council ot the Churches of Christ New York City...
...Study in Frustration: The Fletcher Henderson Story (Columbia. 4 LPs). The man who anticipated Goodman, Basie and Ellington by building the granddaddy of the great swing bands, in a sampling of the incendiary brews he poured from the bandstand for 15 wonderful years (1923-38). Composer Henderson (whose "frustration" was that his greatest success came as an arranger with Goodman rather than as a leader) collected the most extraordinarily gifted group of sidemen in jazz history, and most of them are on triumphant display-Trumpeters Louis Armstrong and Roy Eldridge, Saxmen Coleman Hawkins and Benny Carter, Trombonists J. C. Higginbotham...
...Sand Castle. In a charming but not cloyingly sweet story, a little boy builds a castle of sand so stunning that it merits inclusion in Sir Bannister Fletcher's History of Architecture, while the camera roams in satiric asides among the flesh castles strewn on the beach...
Maria Beale Fletcher, 19, stage-struck daughter of a pair of professional dancers from Asheville, N.C.. found herself Miss America of 1962. A sleek (35-24-35) veteran of the Rockette line at Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall, the hazel-eyed brunette so impressed bumptious Contest Judge (and Broadway Producer) David Merrick that before the Atlantic City finals, he planned to offer her the understudy lead in a forthcoming musical. Among the new Miss America's projected rounds: an overseas tour to display "an example of what our youth is like other than the juvenile delinquents...
...Sand Castle. In a charming but not cloyingly sweet story, a little boy builds a castle of sand so stunning that it merits inclusion in Sir Bannister Fletcher's History of Architecture, while the camera roams in satiric asides among the flesh castles strewn on the beach...