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That incomparably prolific and reliable writer of detective stories, J. F. Fletcher, publishes four stories simultaneously, all highly readable: The Ransom for London (Dial, $2) is scientific crockery on the grand scale?death comes mysteriously to the Prime Minister's prize bulls and to a party of 19 toffs, before the Deadly Three are scotched without their ransom. The House in Tuesday Market (Knopf, $2) has for clues three cigars and a scrap of pink paper, but psychic waves, deadly chemicals, and amateur theatricals find them sufficient. The Secret of Secrets (Clode, $2) is a purely scientific invention...
...Francis Thompson help us to bridge the sharp turns in the stream. After Thompson follow Yeats and A. E., and then it is but a brief jump to Masefield and contemporaries. Aiken and Robinson branch off but then follow quickly Ezra Pound, T. E. Eliot, Amy Lowell, John Fletcher, D. H. Lawrence and the rest. The stripes are many and twisting but the resulting Zebra seems to me just as interesting an animal as the dignified elephant that came before...
...early in the second period enabled the 1932 hockey team to maintain its unbroken string of victories by defeating the Newton High School sextet in a fast game played in the Boston Garden yesterday afternoon. HARVARD 1932 NEWTON Crosby, Martin, Sprague, l.w. r.w., Reilly, Scully Wood, Mays, c. c., Fletcher, Wilkin Subbs, Foster, r.w. l.w., Brown, Nichols Cunningham, l.d. r.d., Gilligan, Andrek Pilmer, r.d. l.d., Gardiner, Andrew Daper, g. g., Harrington...
Florida's Fletcher observed: "Well, we're getting away from Coolidge economy already...
...Possibly to be Secretary of Navy or War, Mr. Hoover's good friend Hugh Gibson, now Ambassador to Belgium, who began life in California. Also powerfully pondered were the great ambassadorships. Leading candidate for something good, possibly London: handsome, able Henry Prather Fletcher who escorted the Hoovers to and around and back from South America, and who, like Mr. Gibson, is a distinguished diplomatic career...