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...clergymen in the Forum were taking their places on the stage. The bald man wanted to know which one was Dr. Joseph T. Fletcher, professor at the Episcopal Theological School...
...Eric Fletcher, a back-bench Laborite, brought up the talk of Churchill's resignation, "on which we shall no doubt now be receiving some authoritative enlightenment." Snorted Churchill loudly: "Delusion." Observed Fletcher: "We shall all know how to interpret that oracular interjection...
...they? Perhaps Churchill was merely referring to the hope that he was going to give enlightenment. Fletcher kept at it. "All honorable members of this House have the greatest admiration and affection for the Prime Minister . . . Can we be left in suspense?" Beaming, Sir Winston broke in to say, "I am sorry I did not bring my hearing aid," as he dispatched his son-in-law, M.P. Christopher Soames, to get the slender, white, lily-shaped trumpet Sir Winston has substituted for the earplug he first used.-"I don't want to miss anything," he confided in a loud...
Married. Charles Brackett, 61, topflight Hollywood producer-director-writer (Lost Weekend, Sunset Boulevard); and Lillian Fletcher, fiftyish, his sister-in-law; he for the second time (his first wife, Elizabeth Fletcher Brackett, died in 1948), she for the first; in Tucson, Ariz...
...tackled subjects from the great age of exploration and produced fresh material and absorbing stories: Bradford Smith's Captain John Smith (no kin) and Kathleen Romoli's Balboa of Darien. Two frequently misunderstood figures were straightened out again: Edwin Stanton, Lincoln's Secretary of War, in Fletcher Pratt's combative Stanton, and a queen of England in H. F. M. Prescott's superb Mary Tudor. Among the remaining literary biographies, some were dull but useful (F. Holmes Dudden's exhaustive Henry Fielding, Leon Edel's first volume of Henry James) ; some were long...