Word: fletcherizers
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...crustiest admiral. After two and a half years as the colorfully efficient guardian of the vital port of Los Angeles, 46-year-old Commander Frank David Higbee had a new assignment where he would undoubtedly originate more forecastle tales. With him he carried the thanks of Mayor Fletcher Bowron and a scroll from his enlisted men: "Just blow that whistle from Greenland's icy mountain to India's coral strand and there won't be a man jack of us left in California...
...orchestral conductors alive, a sovereign interpreter of music old & new, is no solemn priest of tone but the ebullient son of Britain's most celebrated laxative manufacturer. Goateed, 63-year-old Sir Thomas Beecham is also an enthusiastic newlywed, a considerable amateur of the Elizabethan drama (especially Beaumont & Fletcher), an adamant and voluble Tory (though in this role he is really more of a Character than a Colonel Blimp), and a transparent apostle...
...world. Since the radio we have become practically comatose. I foresee a generation which will never get out of bed." Sir Thomas' own lack of laziness is underlined by the fact that he has added writing to his other activities: he has a work in progress on Beaumont & Fletcher, and a forthcoming autobiography called A Mingled Chime...
Another real veteran is drummer Kaiser Marshall, who started drumming for Fletcher Henderson over twenty years ago. He was with Fletcher for over eight years, during which time the band reached its zenith and became the greatest jazz mer. He doesn't drum for the listeners, he drums for the band. He has a fine, crisp beat, and never get in the way of the soloists...
...Clapper thought the U.S. East Coast would be token-bombed, that the Nazis would loose poison gas on England. Columnist George Fielding Eliot wrote that Japs would be "swiftly and decisively beaten." Newscaster Raymond Gram Swing predicted Hitler would either retire or be ousted by the German Army. Author Fletcher Pratt said only a miracle could save Russia "from utter defeat." Foreign Correspondent John T. Whitaker limb-climbed with a flat forecast that the Nazis would invade Spain and Portugal in the spring. Ex-CBS Berlin Newscaster Harry Flannery agreed with him, added the Azores and Canary Islands...