Word: mortons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Covering the Waterfront. Hennecke's naval gunners manned waterside batteries bearing such names as Bromm, Yorck, Hamburg and Landemer. They served their guns so well that lean, bushy-browed Rear Admiral Morton L. Deyo took his whole division of ancient U.S. battleships (Nevada, Texas, Arkansas), four cruisers and seven destroyers to blast them...
Meanwhile the production of classical symphonic records continues in a slow but steady trickle. The latest releases: Morton Gould: Latin American Symphonette (Rochester Philharmonic, Jose Iturbi conducting; Victor; 6 sides). A skillfully concocted olla podrida of Latin American nightclub idioms sizzling in Stravinskian sauce with occasional Straussian dumplings. Performance: excellent...
...over Longfellow's "grove and town" were uniformed students and other signs of war. Civilian enrollment, at 135, was down 75%. A quarter of the faculty of 65 was away on war leave. But Bowdoin was struggling, in the words of President Kenneth Charles Morton ("Casey") Sills, to keep "the flame of liberal education . . . ready for the day when it shall again become a beacon light...
Square-jawed Kent Cooper, executive director of the Associated Press, got madder & madder. For nearly two weeks the A.P. had been waiting for a sizable beat from Bari, Italy: Correspondent Joseph Morton's story of a question & answer interview-by-letter with Yugoslavia's Communist Marshal Josip Broz (Tito). But the story was squashed under the political censorship of 224-lb. General Sir Henry Maitland ("Jumbo") Wilson's Mediterranean command...
...Barkers. J. B. Morton (as his friends know him) is one of England's foremost versifiers (Who's Who at the Zoo, The Adventures of Mr. Thake, The Dancing Cabman) and a serious scholar specializing in the French Revolution ( The Bastille Falls). He has been the "Beachcomber" 20 years, but his success in whimsey is not unique...