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...kept on improving; consequently, Mr. Shaw is finding things just a bit more difficult. His tripe isn't quite as easy to pan-handle this year . . . Benny Goodman has broken the biggest unwritten law in jazz by having a colored man as a regular member of his band. Fletcher Henderson was the choice. The idea is fine--the selection not awe-inspiring. Fletcher is a great arranger, but, he can't play piano . . . . Saxie Dowell, author of that damn tune about some fish, broke his arm recently at Atlantic Beach. That about evens it up . . . It also seems...
...Fletcher Watson, Instructor in Astronomy at the Observatory, announced yesterday that he is hopefully expecting a brilliant outburst of meteors to arrive over Cambridge around October...
...three years ago a smart, dapper, young-looking man named Cortlandt Jackson Langley called on the dean of Columbia University's Teachers College, ambitious, 46-year-old William Fletcher Russell. He found Dean Russell brooding on the fact that his college, long the nation's No. 1 teacher-training institution, had in businessmen's eyes become "The Big Red University...
Tony Stralla said the Rex alone cost him $600,000. Mayor Fletcher Bowron (whose closing of Los Angeles gambling nightspots last year vastly improved Tony's trade) estimated the Rex's "take" at $300,000 per month. When local officials tried to shoo him away or close him up, Tony Stralla was upheld by California's Court of Appeals: his ships were beyond the three-mile limit, beyond State jurisdiction...
...Fletcher Pratt is a little man with a stub pipe stuck sideways under a wispy mustache. His mild eyes behind thick-lensed glasses, his bulging forehead, uncombed scalp lock and careless clothes sometimes make people take him for a clerk in a side-street seed store. Actually, he is the inventor of a naval war game which the Naval War College at Newport, R. I. rates more efficient than its own, and which Landlubber Pratt and enthusiasts play weekly on the floor of his big Manhattan studio. Between battles, Player Pratt steals time to author fat volumes whose swingtime style...