Word: orton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Columbia University's fifth annual Conference on Religion last week. Economics Professor William A. Orton of Smith College spoke a mighty mouthful. Said...
Singles--Lane McGovern (H) defeated Orton (B), 6-2, 6-2; Bill Brady (H) defeated Kuh (B), 6-1, 6-1; Edus Warren (H) defeated Archibald (B), 6-0, 6-0; Bill Wightman (H) defeated Ramsey (B), 4-6, 10-8, 6-3; Travis Gresham (H) defeated Haaberstad (B), 6-0, 6-2; Early (B) defeated Bob Doloff...
Doubles--McGovern and Brady (H) defeated Ramsey and Orton (B), 6-2, 6-1; Gresham and Harold Melvin (H) defeated Kuh and Early (B), 6-3, 6-2; Drake and Fred Flickenger (H) defeated Archibald and Haaberstad...
...aren't particularly interested in Mr. Orton's [book], but we ARE interested in your anonymous book critic's wonderful and incomplete saga of Angela and Carrie Chapman Katz. . . . We long to know more about Angela and her daughter . . . their lives previous to the universal demolition, a chronicle we hope will be salted with plenty of the gifted ladies' ideas and conversation. It isn't fair to give us just this tasty hors d'oeuvre. More! More...
...books which were not strictly philosophic or religious but which implied profound philosophic and religious issues were William Aylott Orton's The Liberal Tradition (TIME, Dec. 3) and Norman Cousins' Modern Man Is Obsolete. Professor Orton's book sought to trace the decomposition of liberalism through the loss of its spiritual content. Author Cousins' 59-page essay is written with a kind of urgency less eloquent than headlong. When the atom bomb vaporized Hiroshima, he says, it rendered obsolete "every aspect of man's activities, from machines to morals, from physics to philosophy, from politics...