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...Morton Norman Swartz, who is now chief of the Infectious Disease Unit at the Massachuset's General Hospital, has been promoted to associate professor of Medicine...
Lawrence College's Economist Mandell Morton Bober, 65, intense, deadpan expert on Marx, general iconoclast and most quoted man on the Appleton (Wis.) campus. Sample Boberisms: "If God were half as nice to us as we are to him, we'd be living in paradise," "Businessmen have as much competition as they cannot get rid of," "Once we went to market with money in pocket and came home with goods in basket; now we go to market with money in basket and come home with goods in pocket," "If every man carried his cross, mighty few women would...
Hearing of the cows to be found, more Puritans came from Europe, not all sparse of speech and life like the first. In South Boston, Thomas Morton came and shortly gathered up a harem of Indian women and a band of raffish followers. "They also set up a May-pole," says William Bradford, "drinking and dancing about it many days together, inviting the Indian women for their consorts, dancing and frisking together (like so many fairies, or furies rather) and worse practices." Morton was finally exported at twelve shillings cost, which was divided among Boston's citizens...
Died. David Morton. 71, professor of English at Amherst College (1926-45), author (The Renaissance of Irish Poetry, 1929) and poet (Ships in Harbour); after long illness; in Madison...
...University's longtime President Rufus Clement, 56, beating out a white contender, was re-elected to the board of education, although the white-supremacy camp (which argued that Clement won the seat by accident the first time) tirelessly reminded voters that he is a Negro. Insurance Dealer Theodore Morton Alexander, 48, first Negro to run for alderman in Atlanta since 1871, finished a close second with two white candidates against him, stands an outside chance of winning a top-two runoff next week. After what he considered a moral victory, Alexander paid high tribute to Bill Hartsfield...