Word: comptons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kenneth T. Bainbridge, associate professor of Physics, is working under the direction of the committee in charge of detection, controls, and instruments, of which Karl T. Compton, president of M. I. T., is chairman...
...strong points were: 1) the Kress collection of Italian art, one of the largest and most comprehensive in the U. S.; 2) a gallery of nine over-average Rembrandts; 3) a bevy of British mantelpiece portraits, including Sir Joshua Reynolds' famed $500,000 portrait of Lady Elizabeth Compton; 4) top-flight pictures by Dutchmen Vermeer and Frans Hals, Flemings van Eyck, Memling, Rubens and van Dyck. Conservative by present-day museum standards, the Gallery is long on portraiture, short on Spanish art, entirely lacking in important French works...
Divorced. Betty Compton Walker, 34, onetime dancer; from James J. Walker, New York City's Mayor during the Wall Street-and-nightclub era, now "tsar" of industrial and labor relations of its cloak-&-suit industry; on her second try; because of his "apparently insane tempers"; in Key West...
...West, Mrs. Jimmy Walker (formerly Dancer Betty Compton) failed to get her divorce (TIME. Feb. 24) after all, ended by having to pay court costs. Asking what she meant when she told newshawks earlier this year "there is not a rift in the cloud" of her married life, the judge declared her "pleadings and proofs" against New York City's onetime mayor and present clothing-industry boss "support at best a case of incompatibility and not a case of extreme cruelty within the meaning of the law in Florida. Incompatibility is not a ground for divorce in this State...
Thrice-married Betty Compton, 36, announced that she had had enough. This week she filed suit for a Florida divorce. "Being a woman of acute sensibility," said plaintiff, "the demand made upon her as the wife of a prominent public figure was such . . . that she became ill. . . ." She wanted her freedom, $5,000 a year as long as she remains unmarried, and equal custody of their two adopted children. For once Jimmy Walker, 59, seemed quite chapfallen, had nothing...