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Morton (given Name)
Morton is a masculine given name which may refer to: * Mort Cooper (1913-1958), American Major League Baseball pitcher * Morton DaCosta (1914–1989), American theatre and film director, film producer, writer and actor * Morton Downey (1901-1985), American singer * Morton Downey Jr. (1932-2001), American singer, songwriter and television talk show host, son of the above * Morton Feldman (1926–1987), American composer, a major figure in 20th-century classical music * Morton P. Fisher (1897–1965), United States Tax Court judge * Mort Garson (1924–2008), Canadian-born composer, arranger, songwriter and pioneer of electronic music * Morton Gould (1913–1996), American composer, conductor, arranger and pianist * Morton Ira Greenberg (1933–2021), United States Court of Appeals judge * Morton Horwitz (born 1938), American legal historian and Harvard law professor * Morton C. Hunter (1825-1896), American Union Army brevet brigadier general and politician * Mort Kaer (1902-199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mort Cooper
Morton Cecil Cooper (March 2, 1913 – November 17, 1958) was an American baseball pitcher who played eleven seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played from 1938 to 1949 for the St. Louis Cardinals, Boston Braves, New York Giants, and Chicago Cubs. He batted and threw right-handed and was listed at and . He was the National League Most Valuable Player in 1942. His younger brother, Walker Cooper, also played in the major leagues. Biography Born in Atherton, Missouri, Cooper signed for the St. Louis Cardinals as an amateur free agent in 1933 and played for seven of their minor league affiliates until 1938, when the Cardinals promoted him to the major leagues. Cooper debuted with the Cardinals in 1938 and had a 12–6 record as a 1939 rookie. He was 24–21 over the next two seasons before hitting his stride, helping the team to World Series titles in both 1942 and 1944. In 1942, Cooper led the National League with 22 wins, 10 shutouts and a 1.78 ERA, earning NL ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morton Marcus
Morton Marcus (1936–2009) was an American poet. He also published a novel and a memoir. Biography Marcus had more than 500 poems published in literary journals across the country, including Poetry (Chicago), TriQuarterly, Ploughshares, Chelsea, The Chicago Review, The Iowa Review, Zyzzyva, Poetry Northwest, and The Denver Quarterly. Four times his work was selected to appear in prize poetry annuals ( The Borestone Mountain Awards of 1967 and 1975, and the 1985 and 1987 Anthology of Magazine Verse). His work has appeared in over 90 anthologies. He has also served as the poet in residence for several universities and led workshops at colleges across America. Marcus was also a long-time co-host of ''The Poetry Show'' on KUSP (a former Santa Cruz public radio station). It was the longest-running poetry radio show in the United States. Outside of the literary world, Marcus created a sixteen-part television review of film ''Movie Milestones,'' which has been shown on ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morton Subotnick
Morton Subotnick (born April 14, 1933) is an American composer of electronic music, best known for his 1967 composition '' Silver Apples of the Moon'', the first electronic work commissioned by a record company, Nonesuch. He was one of the founding members of California Institute of the Arts, where he taught for many years. Subotnick has worked extensively with interactive electronics and multi-media, co-founding the San Francisco Tape Music Center with Pauline Oliveros and Ramon Sender, often collaborating with his wife Joan La Barbara. Morton Subotnick is one of the pioneers in the development of electronic music and multi-media performance and an innovator in works involving instruments and other media, including interactive computer music systems. Most of his music calls for a computer part, or live electronic processing; his oeuvre utilizes many of the important technological breakthroughs in the history of the genre. Early career Subotnick was born in Los Angeles, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morton Sobell
Morton Sobell (April 11, 1917 – December 26, 2018) was an American engineer and Soviet spy during and after World War II; he was charged as part of a conspiracy which included Julius Rosenberg and his wife, Ethel Rosenberg. Sobell worked on military and government contracts with General Electric and Reeves Instrument Corporation in the 1940s, including during World War II. Sobell was tried and convicted of espionage in 1951 and sentenced to 30 years in prison. He was released in 1969 after serving 17 years and 9 months in prison. After that he became an advocate of socialist causes, conducting public speaking and traveling to Vietnam (during the war), to East Germany (before the fall of the Soviet Union), and to Cuba. Biography Morton Sobell was born in New York City to Jewish immigrant parents Louis and Rose Sobel, who came in 1906 from the small village of Belozerka, Russian Empire (today in Ukraine). He attended public schools and Stuyvesant High School. He graduated fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mort Schell
Morton William "Mort" Schell (born 13 July 1943) is an Australian former politician who was a National Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia between 1986 and 1989, representing the seat of Mount Marshall. Born in Goomalling, a small Wheatbelt town, to Winifred Lilia (née Kenworthy) and Roland William Schell, Schell was educated in Perth, boarding at Wesley College. He subsequently returned to Goomalling to farm, initially with his family and later independently, and also became involved with what is now the Western Australian Farmers Federation. He obtained a pilot's licence in 1966, and for several years worked as a commercial pilot and flying instructor based at Jandakot Airport. A former state secretary of the Young Country Party, and a member of each of the various iterations of the National Party, Schell was third on the Nationals' ticket for the Senate at the 1984 federal election. He successfully contested Mount Marshall at the 1986 state ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morton O
Morton may refer to: People * Morton (surname) * Morton (given name) Fictional * Morton Koopa, Jr., one of the Koopalings in the ''Mario'' franchise * A character in the '' Charlie and Lola'' franchise * A character in the 2008 film ''Horton Hears a Who!'' * Morton Slumber, a funeral director who assists the diamond smuggling ring in '' Diamonds Are Forever'' * Morton "Mort" Rainey, an author and the main character of the 2004 film '' Secret Window'' Places Canada * Rural Municipality of Morton, Manitoba, a former rural municipality * Morton, Ontario, a community in Rideau Lakes England * Morton, Cumberland, Cumbria * Morton, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria * Morton, Derbyshire * Morton, Gloucestershire * Morton, Isle of Wight * Morton, a village in Morton and Hanthorpe parish, Lincolnshire * Morton, West Lindsey, Lincolnshire * Morton Hall, Lincolnshire * Morton, Norfolk (or Morton on the Hill) * Morton, Nottinghamshire * Morton-on-Swale, North Yorkshire * Mort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mort Sahl
Morton Lyon Sahl (May 11, 1927 – October 26, 2021) was a Canadian-born American comedian, actor, and social Satire, satirist, considered the first modern comedian. He pioneered a style of social satire that pokes fun at political and current event topics using improvised monologues and only a newspaper as a prop. Sahl spent his early years in Los Angeles and moved to the San Francisco Bay Area where he made his professional stage debut at the hungry i nightclub in 1953. His popularity grew quickly, and after a year at the club, he traveled the country doing shows at established nightclubs, theaters, and college campuses. In 1960 he became the first comedian to be featured in a ''Time (magazine), Time'' cover story. He appeared on various television shows, played a number of film roles, and performed a one-man show on Broadway (theatre), Broadway. Television host Steve Allen said that Sahl was "the only real political philosopher we have in modern comedy". His social satir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morton Peck
Morton Eaton Peck (1871–1959) was an American botanist specializing in flora of Oregon. He was professor of botany at Willamette University. He wrote '' Manual of the Higher Plants of Oregon''. Botanist Arthur Cronquist Arthur John Cronquist (March 19, 1919 – March 22, 1992) was an American biologist, botanist and a specialist on Compositae. He is considered one of the most influential botanists of the 20th century, largely due to his formulation of the Cr ... commented that Peck's Oregon plant collection was "the most complete, so far as I know that exists." References American botanists Willamette University faculty 1871 births 1959 deaths {{US-botanist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mort Meskin
Morton Meskin (May 30, 1916 – March 29, 1995)Social Security Death Index, SS# 071-16-1099. was an American comic book artist best known for his work in the 1940s Golden Age of Comic Books, well into the late-1950s and 1960s Silver Age. Early life Meskin was born in Brooklyn, New York, to parents Max and Rose Meskin. His family was Jewish. He was a childhood fan of pulp magazines, especially ''The Shadow'', and his interests led him to become the art editor of his high school newspaper, and later to attend the Art Students League of New York and Brooklyn's Pratt Institute, from which he graduated in 1938. Comics work After finishing school, Meskin went to work for Eisner & Iger, one of the most prominent "packagers" who supplied complete comic books to publishers testing the waters of the emerging medium. There he did pencils for Fiction House's "Sheena, Queen of the Jungle" in ''Jumbo Comics''. In late 1939, he also worked for the packager Harry "A" Chesler, producing material ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morton McMichael
Morton McMichael (October 2, 1807 – January 6, 1879) was an American newspaper editor, publisher, civic leader and mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 1866 to 1869. He worked as the editor of ''The Saturday Evening Post'' and ''Godey's Lady's Book'' and as editor-in-chief of the ''Saturday Courier''. He co-founded the ''Saturday Gazette'' and was publisher of '' The North American''. He chaired the Executive Consolidation Committee that developed the Act of Consolidation of 1854 to expand the borders of the city of Philadelphia and include all of Philadelphia County. He served as president of the Fairmount Park Commission. McMichael Park, Morton McMichael Elementary School and the McMichael Room in the Philadelphia Union League are all named in his honor. Early life McMichael was born on October 2, 1807, in Burlington County, New Jersey, to John and Hannah McMichael. His father was a soldier during the War of 1812 and worked with Joseph Bonaparte, the older brother ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morton M
Morton may refer to: People * Morton (surname) * Morton (given name) Fictional * Morton Koopa, Jr., one of the Koopalings in the ''Mario'' franchise * A character in the '' Charlie and Lola'' franchise * A character in the 2008 film ''Horton Hears a Who!'' * Morton Slumber, a funeral director who assists the diamond smuggling ring in '' Diamonds Are Forever'' * Morton "Mort" Rainey, an author and the main character of the 2004 film '' Secret Window'' Places Canada * Rural Municipality of Morton, Manitoba, a former rural municipality * Morton, Ontario, a community in Rideau Lakes England * Morton, Cumberland, Cumbria * Morton, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria * Morton, Derbyshire * Morton, Gloucestershire * Morton, Isle of Wight * Morton, a village in Morton and Hanthorpe parish, Lincolnshire * Morton, West Lindsey, Lincolnshire * Morton Hall, Lincolnshire * Morton, Norfolk (or Morton on the Hill) * Morton, Nottinghamshire * Morton-on-Swale, North Yorkshire * Mort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mort Kaer
Morton Armour Kaer (September 7, 1903 – January 11, 1992), nicknamed "Devil May", was an American athlete in track and an All-American collegiate and professional football player. He was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and died in Mount Shasta, California. At the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, he placed fifth in the Olympic pentathlon competition. He was a halfback for the USC Trojans from 1924 to 1926. In 1925, he set a school record by scoring 19 touchdowns, which led the nation that year, tying Peggy Flournoy's mark. The record lasted 43 years, broken in 1968 by O. J. Simpson. In Kaer's three years he had 36 touchdowns, a career record for the school, tied by Simpson in 1967 and 1968. He was elected All-American in 1926. Five years after his college career, Kaer played one year of professional football, 1931, with the Frankford Yellow Jackets of the National Football League. He became coach at Weed High School in Weed, California, where he accumulated a record of 187–47� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
