Word: compton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into this pleasant company comes Slade Compton, a hard and frequently foiled newspaperman from the States, who has been hired to wash that Fascist smell off the king, so he can pass under the noses of the U.S. public. But even for Slade the smell is too strong. He betrays the king in the interests of dear old democracy, but not before he has downed gallons of the royal bourbon, and has had to fend off ardent passes from the royal mistress...
...week, the crew travels to Lake Carnegie, Princeton's artificial and excellent racing course, for the Compton Cup Race with Princeton, MIT, and Rutgers...
...succeed former M.I.T. President Karl Compton as chairman of the Defense Department's Research and Development Bureau, President Truman last week picked another M.I.T. man and longtime associate of ailing ex-Chairman Compton. His choice: 49-year-old William Webster, a vice president of the New England Electric System...
...even more impressive as the work of a new director, Alexander Mackendrick, on his first feature assignment. Director Mackendrick has some expert allies: the players, besides Radford, include Wylie Watson, Gordon Jackson and a fetching blonde named Joan Greenwood. Best of all, he has an unerring screenplay, based on Compton Mackenzie's novel, Whisky Galore, and written by Mackenzie and Angus Macphail. The script savors the cream of the jest, wastes not a drop and ends gracefully with a wry concession to the moral superiority of teetotalers...