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...laws; it questioned whether windfall profiteers could call profits capital gains, taxable at only 25%, instead of straight income subject to taxes as high as 91%. In a test case, BIR protested the 1948 and 1949 tax returns of Long Island Builders Alfred and George Gross, Lawrence Morton and their families...
...other side of the artistic fence was the Center's board of directors, spearheaded by Morton Baum, New York lawyer and man-about-the-arts. Three years ago the board sacked adventurous Conductor Laszlo Halasz, installed Joseph Rosenstock, who is more tradition-directed. Last year the board fired key opera staffers without Kirstein's knowledge. Last week's last-straw news: the board had ignored Kirstein's plan to have Composer Gian-Carlo Menotti supervise the opera division and renewed Conductor Rosenstock's contract against Kirstein's wishes. Director Kirstein resigned in protest. Said...
Austin is an expert on the philosophy of language, which Morton G. White, professor of Philosophy, called "the center of philosophical interest in America today." White described Austin as "one of the leading English philosophers...
...Margaret Knight, 51, the atheist psychologist who had stirred up press and public the week before by urging parents in a radio talk not to tell their children a lot of fairytales about religion and God (TIME, Jan. 24). Opposing her before a BBC microphone was motherly Mrs. Jenny Morton, 52, onetime Church of Scotland missionary in India, and a clergyman's wife. The battle turned out to be so polite that the rattle of teacups was almost audible, but amid the "That's-rights" and "I-quite-agrees," emerged a sharp, well-stated difference on the upbringing...
...sowing the seeds of all these frightful intellectual problems later on, when the child gets older and begins to think for himself, and he is confronted by all the evidence which suggests that God's purposes are anything but loving." Moralist Self-Righteousness. Replied Mrs. Morton: "Well, I couldn't disagree more. My experience is that . . . what people like and don't like bewilders small children . . . Whereas in the Christian home you're appealing from the central relationship of the child's life-his relationship with his parents-to a similar relationship, God the Father...