Word: comptons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fatal slip into sentiment the Senior Controller of Programs of the British Broadcasting Corp. was fired last week. The Senior Controller, Basil Edward Nicolls, did not himself make the slip; it was made by Christopher Stone, a brother-in-law of Novelist Compton Mackenzie. It consisted in wishing the King of Italy a happy birthday by radio and adding: "I don't think any of us wish him anything but good, poor soul...
...Betty Compton Walker, English, ex-showgirl ex-wife of ex-May or Jimmy Walker, applied for U.S. citizenship after five years here...
Karl Taylor Compton (president of M.I.T.): "As compared with your predecessors ... in the past decade, you go out into a world where the issues are clearer and your course better defined. . . . Barring a miracle, it appears to me that we will become involved directly in this war, and that before very long. ... I personally believe that we ought to become involved, just as soon and in whatever way will most effectively join our forces to those of Britain...
...California's Cornelius Warmerdam: the pole vault at the sixth annual Compton Track Meet; clearing the bar at 15 ft., 5½ in. for a new world's high; at Compton, Calif. It was the fourth time within a year that he had broken the world's record, but none of his marks will be accepted as official until the war-disbanded International
...other six: Dr. Vannevar Bush, chairman-Dean Richard Chace Tolman of Cal tech's Graduate School; Commissioner of Patents Conway Peyton Coe; M.I.T.'s President Karl Taylor Compton; Dr. James Bryant Conant; Dr. Frank Baldwin Jewett, president of the National Academy of Sciences and chairman of the board of Bell Telephone Laboratories...