Word: morrison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's current news, TIME reaches into the states and cities of the U.S. to acquaint its readers with a cast of characters vital to the nation's community life. In November 1947, a TIME cover story reported on New Orleans' energetic Mayor deLesseps Story Morrison and his efforts to reform a tired old city. Subsequent progress reports showed New Orleans perking up under a cover of new buildings, bridges and commerce. On the strength of such accomplishments, Morrison last week was nominated for office for a fourth time-and now faces a crucial political decision...
...only the eye's cornea became available in 1939, some doctors began to see such cases. So far no ophthalmologist (M.D.) has published these findings, though several report them privately. Last week, at a National Contact Lens Congress in Manhattan, an optometrist from Harrisburg, Pa., Dr. Robert J. Morrison, reported on 1,100 myopes, aged seven to 19, whom he had fitted with contact lenses, and which they wore all their waking hours. After a minimum of two years' observation of each case, Dr. Morrison saw none in which the myopia had got worse, several in which...
...deaths as hangings). Some have become rude enough to hypothesize. State Pathologist Richard S. Woodruff blames the suicide rate on three local factors: 1) two centuries of inbreeding, 2) mental depression stimulated by lonely mountains and rugged climate, 3) lack of mental health facilities. State Tax Commissioner Leonard W. Morrison adds a practical fourth cause. Says he of a state where 87% of income tax returns show less than $5,000 income a year: "They're not lonely. They're poor...
Died. Ann Daly Morrison, 72, wife of world-girdling Morrison-Knudsen (construction) Co.'s Chairman Harry Winford Morrison (TIME, May 3, 1954), known to many as the "First Lady of Construction" because since their marriage in 1914 she had traveled the world with him; of a circulatory ailment; in Boise, Idaho...
Hardest hit are the forwards, amongst whom Geoff Locke (concusion), Phillip Monnot (sprained ankle), and Alastair Rellie (chest separation) were added to the injury list against Dartmouth. golf course. Reider moved past Morrison with a mile to go, opened up a ten-yard lead, and held it to the finish...