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M.I.T. will go into this afternoon's four-boat Compton Cup crew race on Princeton's Lake Carnegic with especially grim determination and nobody around Newell Boathouse is sure that it might...

Author: By Rudolph Kass, | Title: Crews Row in Compton Cup Races at Princeton | 4/29/1950 | See Source »

...Crimson will defend the Compton Cup against M.I.T., Rutgers, and the host college on Lake Carnegie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crews Leave for Princeton | 4/28/1950 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: There Is No Importance | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

...week, the crew travels to Lake Carnegie, Princeton's artificial and excellent racing course, for the Compton Cup Race with Princeton, MIT, and Rutgers...

Author: By Rudolph Kass, | Title: Cold Gives Crew Late Start; New Boat Lineups Still Very Indefinite | 3/25/1950 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Evaluator | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

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