Word: compton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite some bungling of last spring's Eastern Sprints, the E.A.R.C. Committee has decided to hold the meet in Washington for the second time, on the theory that a second trial will iron out earlier sore spots. The race is scheduled for May 29. Both the Adams Cup and Compton Cup races will be away...
...students. Last week Manhattan's Council for Financial Aid to Education-announced a made-to-order solution: a plan for corporations to contribute to a national scholarship commission, which would operate the biggest college-scholarship program ever set up. Said the council's president, Businessman-Educator Wilson Compton: "Since the council announced the opening of its New York offices last month, it has been swamped with inquiries about the need for helping educational programs." Fully two-thirds of the inquiries have come from corporations, which can make scholarship contributions under EPT this year for as little...
With this unofficial approval of the court, William Compton, Council director, has moved into New York office and will start a publicity drive to bring colleges...
...LeRoy Neumayer, 23, a Compton. Calif, mechanic, who drove a 300-plus h.p. Class B (305 to 488 cu. in.) streamliner owned by auto supply shop operator Chet Herbert, 25, who used to race hotrods himself until he was stricken with polio. The records: a blazing 233.31 m.p.h. for five miles, 230.53 m.p.h. over a ten-kilometer distance...
With snail-like caution, England resumed batting. The bowled balls bounced crazily off the now-frayed turf. In the early afternoon, some 25,000 tautly silent fans watched the Aussies claim another wicket-their last. At 2:53 p.m., England's Denis Compton swatted the winning...