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...means certain that the Detroit Tigers' Willie Wattison Morton, 22, will be the American League's newcomer of the year. He could, for instance, eat himself out of a job-the way he almost did last year when he showed up for spring training with 211 Ibs. distributed haphazardly around his 5 ft. 10½ in. frame. Willie obediently went on a diet, slimmed down to 189 Ibs., and seemed to have a first-string outfield job all wrapped up. Then one day, a teammate slapped him on the backside while he was trying to cut a shoelace...
...partial substitute for Kissinger's Government 130, "Principles of International Politics," Morton H. Halperin, Assistant Professor of Government, will give Government 132, "International Politics and Comparative Foreign Policy." The course will "focus more on the current period than Mr. Kissinger does," he said last night...
...thought that your readers would be interested in knowing of yet another use of the Morton Salt Co.'s [May 7] product: making fresh water into salt water for the joy and comfort of the porpoises at the Cape Coral Gardens here in Florida. Fifty thousand lbs. of table salt were initially poured into the porpoise pool. The porpoise couldn't tell the artificial water from the real thing...
Tapping Brine. Morton grew out of a small agency established in Chicago in 1848 to distribute salt shipped via the Erie Canal from producers in the East. The expansion of Chicago's meatpacking industry after the Civil War really started the company growing; salt is one of the world's most effective preservatives. The growth also attracted a 24-year-old railroad clerk named Joy Morton, who joined the firm in 1879, owned it by 1885. Morton found salt deposits in nearby Michigan, began producing his own supply, gave the company his name and remained president...
...Today, Morton is directed from a strikingly modern concrete office building on the Chicago River by Daniel Peterkin Jr., 59, whose father succeeded Joy Morton as the company's president in 1930. Peterkin joined Morton after getting a degree in geology from Princeton, took over as president after his father's death in 1941, when the company's sales were only $12.9 million. Under his aggressive direction, Morton passed its biggest competitor, International Salt, in the mid-'40s, began producing as well as marketing in every region of the country and overseas. In addition...