Word: morgan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nebraska in the early days of the Scott Fitzgerald era, sang briefly in Chicago, made a stack of phonograph records that became standard fraternity-house equipment across the U.S. For the next ten years, she was the nation's leading torch singer, rivaled only by the late Helen Morgan (with whom she once split top billing in the Follies). Coonskin-clad Yale students mobbed her, Broadway toasted her, Hollywood beckoned. She was the top singer in radio when a flap-eared stripling named Crosby was singing in a trio...
...After many a swan song, Manhattan's venerable old Murray Hill Hotel, a seedy symbol of the Mauve Decade, finally closed its doors. J. P. Morgan Sr. used to sip coffee in the Murray Hill's lobby; Mark Twain often used its decorous billiard room. Now its eight stories of brownstone will be torn down. In its place (on Park Avenue a block south of Grand Central) will go a 30-story office building...
When science hatched the atomic age, moralists and politicians were handed some frightful problems. A different sort of problem is now nagging the scientists themselves: what to do with the deadly radioactive waste products turned out by all the chain-reacting piles? Last week Dr. Karl Z. Morgan, an Oak Ridge physicist, admitted that the problem of this lethal garbage has become serious...
With more atomic piles at work, such put-it-off-till-tomorrow methods may have to be abandoned. Dr. Morgan, keeping a fairly straight face, mentioned a definitive solution: why not concentrate the deadly isotopes into one big lot, load them into high-powered rockets, and-aiming at no particular friendly planet-shoot them off the earth into space...
Eliot--2b, Shapera, Rosenwald; 3b, Tilchman; p. Crichton; c, Crumrine, Williams; cf, Cady; ss, Bartle; lf, Morgan; lb, Murphy; rf, Greenberg. Dunster--lf, Harwood; p, Steuer; ss, Rich; 3b, Torrey; 2b, Aldrich; lb, Flynn; c, Smart; cf, Murphy; rf, Von Salza...