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Look at it this way. Since 1931, technicians have made great advances in recording facilities and acoustics, consequently enabling orchestra leaders to improve on the general quality and balance of the music they record. Nor have the arrangers been asleep. Fletcher Henderson didn't hit his stride until 1934. Since then not only he, but many others including Eddie Bauter, Mary Lou Williams, By Oliver, Eddie Durham and Glenu Miller, have turned out orchestrations that are a vast improvement on the jerky, jazzy arrangements of the twenties (Duke Ellington, of course, is an exception...
...advent of Chick Webb and Gene Krupa has revolutionized the style of every rhythm section in the country, so that today even a mediocre band like Jan Savitt's can cut any of the old Armstrong or Henderson groups as for as pure rhythm is concerned. Compare Fletcher's Sugarfoot Stomp with Savitt's and see what I mean...
Leland D. Burlingame, of Lebanon, N. H. S.B. U. of N. H.; Pao-tung Ching, of Shanghai, China, S.M. Purdue '40; George A. Clemow, of Billings, Mont., S.B. Montana State '40; Ping Chuan Feng, of Peiping, China, S.M. Yenching '34; Ewan W. Fletcher, S.M. '40, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Robert E. Geauque, of St. Louis., S.M. Missouri '40; Vernon B. Hammer, of Portland, Ore., S.B. Washington '40; William Franklin, S.M. '40, of Brooklyn...
...Princeton, Ill., Census Taker F. J. Fletcher, sitting on a farmer's porch, asked: "Does this house need repairs?" The farmer opened his mouth. The porch collapsed...
...Boston City Hospital, Dr. Charles C. Lund has been investigating the relation of vitamins to the healing of surgical wounds, which may have some bearing on the cancer problem. Dr. Fletcher Colby and Dr. Richard Dresser are continuing their observations on the treatment of cancer of the bladder by the million volt x-ray machine...