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Died. General John Kenneth ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, 62, board chairman of Fletcher Aviation Corp., retired veteran of 32 years' service with the Air Force, postwar commanding general of U.S. Air Forces in Europe; of a heart attack; in Arcadia, Calif. Trainer of hundreds of military pilots (among his pupils: Generals Nathan F. Twining, Hoyt Vandenberg, Curtis E. LeMay), four-star Uncle Joe won renown as one of World War II's great tactical airmen; devised "Operation Strangle," which severed Nazi rail transport to central Italy in preparation for the push on Rome...
...After making these charges in "secret" testimony-- it was headline news the next day--Philbrick went on to point out that he had no "legal" evidence, a point which the papers didn't find much use for. These people turned out to be such names as the Rev. Joseph Fletcher of the Episcopal Theological Seminary, the Rev. Kenneth DePew Hughes of St. Bartholomew's Church and the Rev. Donald Lothrop of the Community Church, Boston. Mr. Philbrick doesn't mind making irresponsible charges; he claimed that he had once spoken at Community Church but when the Rev. Mr. Lothrop could...
Much of the team's hopes faded when Fletcher Davis suffered a brain concussion in a Christmas skiing accident, for which he is still hospitalized. One of Minnesota's top scholastic swimmers, Davis recorded a 2:11 200-yard free-style practice swim here before Christmas...
...years before proceeding to Greece with the little army of men whom he paid out of his own pocket to fight against the Turks for Greek independence. There, at swampy Missolonghi, he died of fever at the age of 36, attended to the last by his devoted valet, William Fletcher. All others when they wrote of Byron rose to the occasion with polished words and well-turned phrases, but it was the blunt, semiliterate Fletcher who had the privilege of recording what he called that "fatal day which deprived England of its greatest ornament and me of the best...
...Graduate Secretary made his comments in reference to last night's meeting. The meeting, held in a theatre built into Shattuck's home, was attended by students from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and several full time workers for Moral Rearmament from Washington...