Word: compton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those who knew Karl Taylor Compton best, it was typical that he should want to know how Smilin' Jack was doing. Famed as a scientist and educator, he carried a heavy load, but no man could have carried it with greater grace or a lighter heart. Last week, in paying tribute to him on a special broadcast from Boston, his successor, James R. Killian Jr., mentioned his achievements only in passing. Far more important to Killian was Compton himself, "emanating goodness and wisdom . . . and engendering a spirit of good will among all coming within his influence...
...Never-Sweats. The son of a professor of philosophy at Ohio's College of Wooster, Karl Compton hardly seemed the type destined for so distinguished a career. Unlike his bookish brother Arthur, who had written a serious treatise on elephants' toes at the age of ten, Karl was the friendly campus hero who captained the Wooster football squad and pitched on a local baseball team known as the "Never-Sweats" (the Never-Sweats' catcher: a young fellow named Ben Fairless, now boss of U.S. Steel). Eventually, however, he got his M.A. at Wooster, later taught at Portland...
...Karl Compton's 18 years as president were golden years for M.I.T. He completed the great George Eastman Research Laboratory of Physics and Chemistry, set up the Graduate School, reorganized the undergraduate course to give M.I.T.'s science and engineering students a better grounding in the liberal arts. During the war, he helped mastermind the atomic bomb project, saw M.I.T. and Harvard turn Cambridge, Mass, into the radar center of the world...
Booked Until September. From his great paneled office in the Administration Building, Compton ran his campus with a firm but informal hand. He turned out some 300 articles on everything from thermionics to spectroscopy, helped found the American Institute of Physics, kept in constant touch with brother Arthur Holly Compton (who won the Nobel Prize and became chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis), brother Wilson Martindale Compton (who served as president of the State College of Washington), and sister Mary (who married the president of Allahabad University in India). Profoundly patriotic, he was a constant commuter to Washington, served...
...California, at the Compton Relays, Kansan Wes Santee announced that he was about to run a 4:00.3 mile. Santee's feat was almost as big as his boast. Racing in a cold wind, he was clocked in 4:00.6, an American record, second only to English Roger Bannister's historic...