Word: morgan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Herbert L. Satterlee, 83, patriarchally handsome son-in-law and biographer of the late J. P. Morgan Sr.,* Assistant Secretary of the Navy under Theodore Roosevelt, onetime president of the Union League Club and longtime Manhattan corporation lawyer and social figure; by his own hand (pistol); in Manhattan...
Died. William Boardman Porter, 81, for 35 years skipper of the late J. P. Morgan's fabulous yachts, Corsair III and Corsair IV, a job that made him one of the world's best paid sea captains; in Fort Lauderdale...
...promise of cures or preventives for infantile paralysis has backfired so often that researchers are gun-shy. But this week a team of scientists at Johns Hopkins*-Drs. Isabel M. Morgan, Howard A. Howe and David Bodian-guardedly reported a new polio vaccine which, in trials on monkeys, has performed better than any other...
Cheyenne (Warner) is as hard to distinguish from most other westerns as one Fred Harvey lunchroom is from the next. Dennis Morgan chases assorted desperadoes up & down hill through semi-arid shrubbery and past many picturesque specimens of erosion. The desperadoes chase the stagecoaches. Every so often someone gets shot, plunges from saddle or coachman's seat and rolls over & over. The hero plugs four desperate characters, largely because they hadn't lived long enough to learn that in bright sunlight a man's shadow can forecast his presence, however stealthy...
...Morgan, an agent of justice, pretends before the lesser crooks that he is a major public menace called The Poet. Then he has to convince them that he is the husband of The Poet's wife (Jane Wyman). This offers a chance for a tedious kind of bedroom humor from which westerns used to be a refuge; at one point Mr. Morgan and Miss Wyman, snug under separate blankets, even play footie. Entertaining moment: Janis Paige, bulging a skintight costume and singing Cheyenne, a pretty nice oat-fed tune...