Word: morristown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...North Carolina doctors reported that too much spinach is a major cause of kidney stones. The stones are caused by excess oxalic acid in the diet, said Researchers James C. Andrews and Claude L. Yarbro, and the "much-praised spinach is one of the worst offenders." ¶ In Morristown, N.J., the Morristown Memorial Hospital installed a new device, aimed at giving unwelcome visitors, e.g., children under 14, a chance to be seen by and chat with patients from a distance. The gimmick: a special TV hookup that employs existing TV sets in rooms, a camera and transmitter in the visitors...
What swung the balance to McGinnis? Some thought it was the 23,200 shares owned by Stockbroker John A. Munro of Morristown, N.J., who had criticized Dumaine's interests in outside businesses such as American Woolen. Munro would not say. But there was no doubt that McGinnis had voted his proxies more shrewdly than Dumaine. Under the New Haven's cumulative voting procedure, one share of stock counts for 21 votes. They can be spread out across the railroads entire slate of 21 directors, or lumped on one director. Knowing it would be close, McGinnis concentrated his strength...
...years he hoped to get his sight back and traveled around the country consulting eye specialists. But last November, resigned to his fate, he went to Morristown, N.J., got a fawn-colored seeing-eye dog, a boxer named Candy. Back in Denton, he started walking to his office every morning with Candy's assistance. Last week bad luck hit the sheriff again. He had no way of knowing, as he set out for work early one morning, that he was walking through a thick fog. A jeep driver, delivering newspapers, failed to see him until too late...
Died. Franklin D'Olier, 76, the American Legion's first national commander (1919-20), president of the Prudential Insurance Co. of America (1938-45) and head of the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey (1944-46); after long illness; in Morristown...
...annual awards dinner of the Tennessee Press Association Inc. in Memphis last week, the prize for the state's "best single editorial" was presented by University of Tennessee President C. E. (for Cloide Everett) Brehm to the Morristown Sun (circ. 3,989). The winning editorial: "The Sad Case of UT's President," a rousing attack on President Brehm for "giving way to a pressure group" and refusing to allow a Russian movie and old Charlie Chaplin films to be shown on his campus. Said President Brehm: "Everyone has the right to have convictions and to express them...