Word: compton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adopted. By onetime (1925-32) New York Mayor James John Walker and wife, onetime Actress Betty Compton; a boy, eight weeks old, to be a companion to their adopted daughter Mary Ann, 17 months; in Chicago. Name: James John...
When Harvard won the Compton regatta early in the year, any doubts as to the ability of Coach Tom Bolles to develop a winning sprint crew were dissolved, and all that he has to prove now is that he can change them back into a boat which can withstand the gaff of a four-mile grind and come up the winner as well as they have during their spring races...
...Bolles of Harvard, appointed last autumn to replace Charles Whiteside whose crews, though they beat Yale four times out of seven in four-mile races at New London, did poorly in shorter races. The event was the one and three quarter mile varsity race in the Compton Cup Regatta, on Princeton's Lake Carnegie...
...Karl T. Compton, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and onetime Princeton physics professor, the Compton Cup for the first four years was won regularly by Princeton. Last week this embarrassing situation ended when Harvard's varsity boat, smoothly stroked by Jim Chace, slipped across the finish line a length ahead of Princeton and five ahead...
...first time in years Harvard is ranking as a power in Eastern rowing, for the new Bolles regime went off to an auspicious start Saturday afternoon as the Crimson's first and second eights glided to victory in the Compton Cup races...