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...minutes of play constituted the equivalent of a day's fighting; during the '20s, Geddes and his friends played it every Wednesday from eight in the evening until midnight. Some wars lasted two or three years. . . . The game occasionally took a tragic turn. Rear Admiral William B. Fletcher, long a regular player, lost eight capital ships one night and was so humiliated that he never returned. Another friend, after being court-martialed one evening for losing an entire army, lay on a sofa and cried...
Pratt & the Graf Spee. Military Expert Fletcher Pratt of New York City invented in 1929 and has since developed a Naval War Game which actually approximates sea war. One night in 1939 the players looked at each other and whistled. Three light ships had just sunk the German pocket battleship, the Admiral Graf Spee, a supposedly impossible feat. But their calculations showed it could be done-and they were not so much surprised as vindicated when the Graf Spee actually got her comeuppance in just that way six months later off Brazil...
...G.O.P. leaders had committed themselves publicly, but in the battle for votes Schroeder had the behind-scenes support of Herbert Hoover, Ohio's Senator Robert Taft, silver-haired Henry P. Fletcher, who held the job himself back in 1934-36, and many a "practical" politician. Leading the fight against Schroeder was Wendell Willkie...
...Year, swore she could have outstripped blazing Brenda as Glamor Girl if she had half tried. Diana palled around with Brenda a little, was reported engaged to Anthony Duke, Francis Kellogg, Harry Ellerbee (whom she called Poopsie), Sir William Wrixon-Becher, and a convoy of others, including Actor Bramwell Fletcher. Last summer, yes-she married...
...century and a half had passed since Fletcher Christian and eight other mutineers with Tahitian wives and friends had sailed the Bounty to Pitcairn, run it aground and burned it. By 1800 all the mutineers but John Adams had either died quietly or been murdered. And for 29 years Adams, brandishing the Bounty's dog-eared Bible, had ruled the island wisely and well. From the U.S., a few years later, had come a Seventh-Day Adventist missionary who converted all the island's inhabitants. Since then, Pitcairners have been prohibitionists; education for children has been compulsory...