Word: mortons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thousand members of R.O.T.C. training courses will become officers in the Army this year, Major Morton Smith, F.A., adjutant of Harvard Regiment, has announced. This number is about the same as it was before the outbreak of hostilities, because the government has not appreciably enlarged the Reserve training courses, Smith added...
...first three marriages were all to the same man, Playboy Morton McMichael Hoyt, brother of the late Poetess Elinor Wylie. Hoyt attracted attention in 1928 when, on a dare, he jumped off the liner Rochambeau into mid-Atlantic. Another Hoyt stunt: chopping up a whiskbroom, eating it with cream and sugar. He and Eugenia were divorced, twice remarried and divorced between...
...Major Morton Smith, Adjutant, indicated last night that the Military Science Department was ready to present any program of courses that the War Department might want...
...orthopedic surgeon in World War I, Dr. Morton was struck by the amount of foot trouble and the difficulty of analyzing it. After the war he spent five years as a researcher of the American Museum of Natural History, studying the evolution of the human foot, went on to investigate feet at Yale. Then with Dr. Herbert Elftman he devised his apparatus to study feet, His findings: most trouble with the foot starts with the first metatarsal, the small bone behind the great toe. Normally this bone carries two-sixths of the weight of the body. If it is short...
...Morton does not like ugly corrective shoes, prefers to prop up weak feet with insoles that are thickened at the spots that need help. But the insole, says Dr. Morton, must be as carefully made as a pair of glasses. He is sure that his black box, which will be manufactured commercially soon, will be as important to orthopedists as the cardiograph is to heart specialists...