Word: orton
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...Drake Duane, president of the society, called the donation "one of momentous proportions," and added that the money will make possible the realization of "a dream once held by Dr. Samuel T. Orton, founder of the society...
James D. Wells, president of the Wm. Underwood Company yesterday presented a $100,000 donation to the Orton Society, a volunteer organization that studies and treats dyslexics, at the society's annual meeting in Boston. The Orton Society will turn the money over to the Medical School for construction of the laboratory...
Finally, Ashton claims that "Aeschylus and Sheridan, Feydeau and Joe Orton are ill-assorted companions"; this is nonsense, as anyone familiar with theatrical repertory knows. The ART season will include Shakespeare and Feiffer, Beckett and Beaumarchais; the Blaridge productions are, I think, similarly well-chosen. To follow the course of specialization Ashton suggests would, over the length of a season, bore the actors almost as much as the audience, and destroy the whole purpose for which the company was started...