Word: morganization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Visiting Committee on Athletic Sports will soon supplant the 23-man group which resigned secretly the day after the Yale football game, it was reported last week. The new chairman is George Witney '97, president of the Board of Overseers and chairman of the board of directors of J.P. Morgan...
...Awful?" The Apalachee School in Morgan County had only two teachers for all seven grades. Its floors were so rough, said the principal, that "the boys & girls are always getting splinters in their feet. It had no lavatory and no running water, only a hydrant in the yard and two primitive outdoor privies. "Isn't it awful?" demanded the principal. "I won't go down there." The rickety Ola schoolhouse in Henry County was not much better. Plumped in the middle of "an almost treeless field of pale dust," it had only four rooms and four teachers...
Mystery Man. Actually, none of the 235 papers (combined circ. 27 million) which print Rex Morgan should have been surprised at his new adventure. In the 2½ years since the strip first appeared, Rex Morgan's concern with the problems of medical life has prompted him to take up questions that old-fashioned cartoonists and some editors might well think "had no place" on a comic page. But for its sharp and accurate commentary on medical problems, Rex Morgan, M.D. has won the admiration of medical men across the land...
...reason for its success among physicians is that the originator of Rex Morgan is a doctor himself who uses the pen name "Dal Curtis." His identity is kept a secret by Publishers Syndicate because Curtis, now 40, is practicing in an Eastern city and he fears his fellow doctors wouldn't like the idea of his comic-stripping on the side...
...idea for Rex Morgan's current sequence came from a Roman Catholic priest. He suggested to Presbyterian Curtis a few months ago that people do not know enough about euthanasia or what the real issues are. Curtis decided to enlighten his readers as he has before on cancer quacks, police and psychology. All have brought a flood of mail from medical men. The letter that Curtis prizes most came from Dr. Charles S. Cameron, medical and scientific director of the American Cancer Society Inc. Wrote Dr. Cameron: "May I compliment you on the splendid service you are rendering...