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Styles ranged from the rugged realism of painters like Kansas City's Fletcher Martin (TIME, Nov. 25, 1940) and Chicago's Francis Chapin to flat, geometric abstractions and surrealist fantasies. Top-notchers whose work had already drawn plaudits included Portland, Ore.'s Darrel Austin (who paints dank, dripping green landscapes swarming with wide-eyed animals and ghostlike humans), Boston's Jack Levine (whose red-faced politicians and gangsters appear to be seen through a glass of water...
Course A (two hours a week) begins with lectures on geography, world trade and the strategic importance of bases and routes. Dr. William G. Fletcher of Yale wrote the geography lesson, quoted Napoleon: "Policies of all states are to be found in their geography...
Sleight. In Detroit John Fletcher Jones was arrested for driving 48 miles an hour with one hand while he shaved himself with an electric razor plugged into the dashboard...
...Ellen Fletcher took Britain's latest and greatest war with the calmness of the very old. She had lived to see her country at war with the Russians (1854), the Boers (1898), the Germans, Austrians and Turks (1914), and then the Germans again. When a bomb fell near her home last winter, she told friends: "This young fellow Hitler isn't going to frighten me," and went on knitting for soldiers and listening to war news. Last week, still not frightened, she died...
Four of the leading authorities on the Far East situation have been obtained. The chairman of the program is S. Shepard Jones, who is the director of the World Peace Foundation, and as lecturer in the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts College. Others to sit in on the discussion are Arthur N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government; Charles B. Marshall, instructor in Government; and William J. Crozler, professor of Physiology...