Word: mortons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...read your account of Charles W. Morton's attack on the fraternity system at Williams College [TIME, Sept. 27]-and inferentially against the system in general-my immediate reaction was to diagnose his ... rehash of ancient and outmoded arguments against fraternities as a consequence of a recent attack of ulcers, a psychoneurotic ailment that brought to consciousness a childhood disappointment...
Last week Dr. Morton C. Kahn of Cornell University Medical College reported that the dirty trick has been played, and that it works fine. Dr. Kahn, unlike Entomologist Hyslop (see below), is fiercely anti-insect. He went to Cuba and made a phonograph record of the song of a female Anopheles albimanus (a malaria carrier). Then he put a powerful loudspeaker in a buzzing Cuban swamp and surrounded it by a deadly electrified screen...
...awards, made by Rear Admiral Morton Deyo and Major General Frank Keating, cited the professors, most of whom were physicists and chemists, for their valuable services to the United States during the-past...
Incomparable Secrets. Writes Morton...
Good Old Himmelfarber. What comes of it all? Says Morton: "The college fraternity is highly regarded by manufacturing and retail jewelers, dealers in seed pearls and chip diamonds, and, naturally, by the ketchup industry. [But] the principal beneficiary [is] the executive secretary ... of the national fraternity itself. It's a life job, and because no one really knows how [he] got it, there is no ready way of getting rid of him . . . [His] entire life is spent in confecting doleful yet enthusiastic appeals for funds...