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Specifically, Nimitz swung his three carriers-Enterprise, Hornet, Yorktown- around to the northeast of Midway to take the Japanese by surprise from the flank. "You will be governed by the principle of calculated risk," Nimitz told his task force commanders, Rear Admirals Raymond A. Spruance and Frank Jack Fletcher, who well knew that the three carriers were about all that stood between the Japanese and California. Not far away, gliding serenely through a fog bank amid their great escort, the Japanese carriers Akagi, Kaga, Soryu and Hiryu prepared for their strike...
From its headquarters in White Plains, N.Y., the Fund for Adult Education (director: C. Scott Fletcher) runs a major campaign to give adults a chance at liberal education. Among other things, it has spent $10 million on educational TV, started thousands of Americans on the Great Books trail, financed part-time liberal-arts courses for businessmen, now hopes to get 12 to 15 universities to set up adult liberal-arts programs...
...good records (whose names are familiar to viewers of Jack Webb's Dragnet), filed complaints of criminal libel against Cohen and his TV hosts both in Los Angeles and Manhattan. Parker announced that he would sue all concerned, including sponsor Philip Morris. Also ready to sue: ex-Mayor Fletcher...
Peter Davis '57 is the only i.e. editor named in the suit, since he is the only one of the four editors who is still a resident of Massachusetts. Two others, John A. Pope '56 and Leo Raditsa '56, graduated from the College last June. The fourth, Angus Fletcher, was a graduate student here last year...
...unless it was understood that she would marry him." However, the first young gentleman with whom she sought to follow Mummy's advice soon married someone else. From this point on. Author Barrymore carefully chronicles several lovers and three husbands. First in the trio was British Actor Bramwell Fletcher. 17 years her senior, who liked to sit at home painting and reading. Husband No. 2 was Tennis Pro John Howard. Distressing in many ways. Johnny was a refreshing change in others, e.g., asked by Mummy to mow the lawn, he only drawled: "Sorry...