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Allen Waller Morton, vice president of Koppers...
...Industry Adviser Major Desmond John Falkiner Morton, broad-shouldered, black-mustached, was A.D.C. to Field Marshal Earl Haig during World War I, and since 1936 Director in the Department of Overseas Trade, where he built up what amounted to an economic secret service. Much of the data on the terrific secret strides Germany was making in war preparations with which Mr. Winston Churchill M. P. used to startle the House of Commons from time to time reputedly came from Major Morton, whose home is a cottage near Churchill's Westerham Manor...
...William H. Welch did not believe "the real originator of anesthesia was Dentist William Thomas Green Morton. . . ." He gave that honor to Horace Wells...
...modest to publish his early experiments" that "he laid his ether bottles aside." Crawford W. Long was simply not impressed with the fact that he had a great discovery in his hands, and so he "laid his ether bottles aside" until he read of Wm. T. G. Morton's work, and then three years after Morton's announcement he published his claim as the discoverer of anesthesia...
Last week Youthbuilders, Inc. staged its biggest affair. Two hundred children and 100 distinguished grown-up guests gathered for a forum and luncheon. Welcomed by a children's committee-James Breetveld, Donald Fox and Morton ("Squeaky") Fleischman-was Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, the main speaker. Said chubby Elsie Reardon, 10: "When you disagree with a person, instead of socking...