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...Baas." "Can't you leave me alone?" asks Fletcher. "No, baas." In these simple words, the formula of a social poison is stated. There is no forgiveness of trespasses, but a meting-out predating the New Testament. Joseph has made of himself a human albatross, and he and the ones who have wronged him will hang together to the end. Fletcher, the white man, is left in a hysteria of frustration, "dancing there, solitary in the veld, a grotesque little figure, capering under a blazing...
Windbag Who Babbles. There is something odd about the man, Fletcher, a windbag who babbles about irrigating the Karroo with atomic power and establishing a world government on the lines of South Africa's present Nationalist regime. The man's wife is silent and bitter. But the pair beg the students to stay with them for a free holiday. Thus the boys come to sense the fear that lies under Fletcher's racial brag. The house is subtly menaced by a big old illiterate Kaffir, Joseph, who just hangs about. Man and wife are desperately afraid...
...Died. Fletcher Pratt, 59, bearded, gnome-like military-affairs expert, prolific writer (The Marines' War, Empire and the Sea, Secret and Urgent), onetime newspaperman, military librarian, and military analyst for TIME; of cancer; at Long Branch, N.J. Born into a military family, Pratt also indulged in such encyclopedic interests as raising marmosets, cracking codes, inventing war games...
...Class, under the direction of Chorister Timothy B. Cogan, of Lowell and New York City, will sing the Class Ode, written by Fletcher Hodges III, of Eliot and Pittsburgh. Dr. Buttrick will close the ceremonies with a benediction...
...page book proceeds by criticizing formal education at the University, several departments, the club system, and some of the other extracurricular activities. The writing was done by Leo Raditsa '56, john A. Pope, '56, Angus Fletcher 4G, and Peter Davis...