Word: comptons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scientist nor an engineer, and he never earned a Ph.D. He is a quiet, competent man, who got his bachelor's degree in business and engineering administration. To support himself as a student, he went to work for the Technology Review, stayed until 1939 when President Karl T. Compton made him his executive assistant. A kindly and laconic man who likes hiking and the novels of George
After working hours, Jimmy was off to parties with old Broadway friends. Soon he had a new one: Actress Betty Compton. Their relationship became a Page One scandal. "If you have to be a sneak to get votes," snapped Jimmy, "then count me out right now." All went as gaily as a magic-carpet ride-until the Crash. In 1931, the New York state legis- lature voted an investigation of charges of corruption in the Walker administration. "A tempest in a pot," said Jimmy...
Jimmy got a divorce and married Betty Compton. He tried this & that to keep up his standard of living-a newspaper column, a chicken farm, assistant counsel for the State Transit Commission, a job at $25,000 yearly as czar of labor relations in Manhattan's garment industry. He was still faultlessly tailored, urbane and worldly. In 1942, after his marriage to Betty had also ended in divorce, Jimmy, 60, went back to the Roman Catholic Church. "The glamor of other days I have found to be tinsel," he later said...
...tall guesses as to how the Russians are getting on with their bombmaking. David (No Place to Hide) Bradley, a doctor of medicine who is a tyro in atomic science, declared: "The Russians have the secret of the bomb .. . They may have the bomb." Said Nobel-Prize Physicist Arthur Compton: "Russia does not have the bomb. The Russians will not know they have it until they succeed in exploding one." Compton also said that as soon as the Russians set off a bomb, scientists the world over will know it, from radioactivity in the upper atmosphere (TIME...
Churchill's address was preceded by short introductory remarks from Karl T. Compton, ex-president of M.I.T., and Bernard M. Baruch, elder statesman. The former read a letter from President Truman, who apologized for his absence with the assurance that it was "a matter of necessity, not of choice...