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...daily schedule provided for four hours of lectures and approximately one hour of flight training. The courses taught were: Theory of Flight by William Bollay, Instruments by Ben Hartog, Professor of Engineering, Meteorology by Dr. Lang of the Blue Hill Observatory, navigation by Fletcher Watson, instructor in Engineering, and Air Engines and Air Regulations by A. U. Puckett, instructor in Engineering...
Grant Wood's successor as mentor to young lowans is a youngish (36), tough-looking, tough-talking, tough-painting, handle-bar-mustached artist, Fletcher Martin. A husky onetime sailor and boxer, Martin is largely self-taught. His first oils and water colors, shown in San Diego in 1934, were done in his spare time as a printing pressman. The gobs and prize fighters Fletcher Martin used to sketch still flex their heavy muscles in his canvases; his Trouble in Frisco-sailors slugging, seen through a porthole-is owned by Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
...loyalty, proffer their service and support, make suggestions, consult. Some of them had been waved in & out of Colorado Springs for a smile, a handshake, a drink. Many -like William ("Bill") Ditter, chairman of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee-had never been consulted at all. Others-like Henry Fletcher, the Republicans' general counsel, who had gone to Colorado Springs with a 14-page legalistic essay on how the G. O. P. could get around the Hatch Act limit of $3,000,000 on national-campaign spending-had been shown the door. How could anyone so politically insensible...
...University of Arkansas, set up practice for himself in Florida in 1925. When he was 28 he was on the State Democratic Committee, stumped for Al Smith, and rated a letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1936 the death of Florida's old Senator Duncan Fletcher gave Claude Pepper the chance he had wanted since he was a boy. He ran (without opposition) for the unexpired term, got reelected, for a full six years...
...Airedale." After a sufficiently shattering amount of balloon dialogue ("Oh, Moms, I'm so glad you and Dads decided to install a Genfeedco automatic oil burner and air conditioner with the new self-ventilating screen flaps plus finger control!"), Bobby answers the door and "admits Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher and their three children, attired in long balbriggan underwear. General greetings." Then Mrs. Fletcher delivers the line which should stop U. S. advertising copywriters in their tracks for a long time...