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During the Little Rock segregation crisis, Roman Catholic parochial schools of Arkansas seemed so safely segregated that many Protestant parents began sending their children to them. The Roman Catholic Bishop of Little Rock, Albert Louis Fletcher, 63, kept silent during the public school hassle, despite his own strong statement in favor of the Supreme Court desegregation decision in 1954 and the consistent anti-segregation policy of the Catholic hierarchy in the South. But last week Fletcher published an "Elementary Catholic Catechism on the Morality of Segregation and Racial Discrimination." Main points...
Missionary Zeal. Neither the snakes nor the nymphos will leave Peter Fletcher alone, for he is an advanced alcoholic of vaguely endearing charm. However, it is not pleasant to keep Peter's company, and Author Treat, a newspaperman (Connecticut's Danbury News-Times) and "arrested" alcoholic, does not mean...
...beginning of Endless Road, Peter Fletcher has already lost a great deal more than a weekend. A onetime athlete, he has lost his physical fitness. He has lost his job as a columnist. He has left his wife Mary, an odd mother-hen type who needed Peter's boozed-up dependence on her as much as he needed booze. The only thing he has not lost is the enduring friendship of Jon Baker, a fellow booze-fighter of yesteryear who has become an apostle of Alcoholics Anonymous...
Football has been good to Sam Huff. When he married Mary Fletcher, his classmate sweetheart, in their senior year of high school, his friends were heading for the mines. Now the Huffs and their two children, Robert Lee ("Sam") Huff Jr., 7, and Catherine Ann, 2, live in their own house in Rock Lake, W. Va. Last year Sam bought a 25-acre farm in nearby Farmington to raise Shetland ponies. "When he was a kid, we couldn't afford a pony," says his father, who lives on the farm. "Sam wants every kid in the area to have...
...asset of the company has been the scenic inventiveness of the gifted young American designers whom Miss Caldwell has commissioned. One of the handsomest operatic settings I have ever seen was the elegant interior of Bartolo's house that Robert O'Hearn conceived for last spring's Barber. Robert Fletcher's decor for the new Tosca continues this very commendable tradition...