Word: fletcherizers
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Sharpest blow was struck by Los Angeles Mayor Fletcher Bowron's Committee on Home Front Unity (polite name for the Los Angeles Race Committee). It recommended that the Hays Office ban Uncle Tom on the grounds that the picture would cause "racial tension...
...play, which ambles up-country through several months of the North African campaign, accumulates neither meaning nor suspense. Nor can it hold up as straight reporting, for most of it is purpled by the storybook struggle between a U.S. top sergeant (Myron McCormick) and a titled British captain (Bramwell Fletcher) over an Australian nurse. The captain is out of a Punch cartoon, the girl just out of this world. In the end, while Stukas blaze overhead, the proud peer gamely reads the marriage service over the girl and the better...
...Fletcher Henderson, jazz-band leader, will take time off from his current engagement at Boston's Tic-Toc to appear over. Harvard's Crimson Network this evening at 8 o'clock. Henderson, with a newly-recruited, colored and white band, has been touring the country, and recently caused a furore in the South because of the band's racial equality...
They spend 15 minutes a day five times a week dramatizing the failure of the butcher to deliver the meat, the business of buying a Christmas present for the boss, the question of closed barbershops on Sunday, etc. They, plus their adopted son Russell, plus Uncle Fletcher, an absentminded, somewhat deaf, minutely anecdotal citizen, are the chief characters in the show. But the actors who play these four talk about an odd assortment of town characters who never appear...
Speakers for the evening were as follows: Robert Rankin, Simmons College, Chairman; Warren S. Tryon, Simmons College; Veit Valentin, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; and Saville Davis, Christian Science Monitor. Such forums are held under the auspices of the Harvard College Observatory...