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...Alfred Orton, Dean of the State College of Education at the University of Utah, has been named Visiting Professor of Education. Dean Orton, whose field is educational administration, enjoyed extensive experience in secondary school administration...
Married. Marilyn Buferd, 33, reedy (5 ft. 8 in., 123 Ibs.) Miss America of 1946, who made a small splash in the Italian cinema (Al Diavolo La Celebrita); and Hans Orton, Los Angeles restaurateur; she for the second time, he for the first; in Beverly Hills, Calif...
...What? In Salt Lake City, Police Chief W. Cleon Skousen declared that Probationary Officer Wayne Orton, whose off-duty driving record shows three accidents, seven arrests, four suspensions, "has an outstanding record...
...largest British project of its kind tried in the last 50 years, the Atlas has taken Orton, his research assistant. Stanley Ellis, and six field workers through 200 different villages to question local citizens and record their speech. Their subjects are usually oldtimers who still speak their ancient dialects, and they are also apt to be men because the women tend to regard the dialects as strictly non-U. Each farmer might be asked as many as 1,267 questions, but the questions must be carefully worded. Should a researcher ask, "Where do you keep your cow?", the farmer might...
...Though Orton's work will not be completed until 1964, that will be none too soon. "This," says one of his colleagues, "is certainly the last chance to record these dialects. The sons and daughters don't know them." Were it not for such research, posterity might never know that once upon a time-back in 1957-an Englishman could throw away ket, kelter, ketment, rommit, rammill and muck-and still only be discarding rubbish...