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Died. Arthur Holly Compton, 69, brilliant pioneer of modern physics and, as wartime director of the University of Chicago's innocuously titled Metallurgical Laboratory, a key figure in the development of the atomic bomb, Chancellor of St. Louis' Washington University (1945-53); of a stroke; in Berkeley, Calif. An unpretentious scion of one of America's distinguished intellectual families,* Ohio-born Arthur Compton made his scientific debut at ten with a treatise on elephants' toes, won the Nobel Prize (together with Britain's Charles T.R. Wilson) at 35 with the discovery that X rays...
...MIGHTY AND THEIR FALL, by I. Compton-Burnett (254 pp.; Simon & Schusfer; $4.50). With a country house and all its butlered, bachelored, dowagered, nurseried inhabitants, 70-year-old Ivy Compton-Burnett creates her own cosmos. Her scene is, like the Greek stage, mercilessly compact and periodically given to disquieting revelations and messengered melodrama. The Mighty and Their Fall concerns an enslaving, egocentric widower, Ninian, and his devoted daughter, Lavinia. Ninian decides to remarry. Lavinia becomes emotionally unhinged, a letter is mysteriously withheld, and a family will turns up with a deathbed injunction scrawled on it. By such classic Compton-Burnett...
...strange power of such lines as " 'He has only one eye and I never know which one is looking at me,' the Queen would sometimes complain." Although apparently a freakish offshoot of modern literature, Firbank was actually a great innovator, Powell suggests. Two masters of dialogue, Ivy Compton-Burnett and Evelyn Waugh, sat in Firbank's school. In fact, Firbank's exotics-improbable princesses, epicene cardinals, Caribbean market queens and so on-talk with the raw strength of Hardy's Wessex peasants. Even Hemingway's brusque and hirsute mannerisms, Powell argues, may owe something...
Coming to Grips. If admen have not sold themselves as well as their products, it is partly because they are not nearly so masterful at "huckstering" and "hidden persuasion" as their detractors imagine. "Advertising has functioned imperfectly," says Compton Advertising Vice President James Kelly, "in coming to grips with its own business...
...Midlands town. So he came to London with about ?25, a cardboard suitcase and a haversack full of books to practice his trade of being a poet and philosopher. Almost immediately he meets his mate, a New Zealander named Doreen, and his mentor, a sometime actor named Charles Compton Street. Charles introduces him to the fine art of living without working-cadging food and drink, stealing an occasional rare book, sleeping on suburban trains or on somebody's floor. Charles also introduces him to a series of Soho oddballs whose rhythmic appearance and disappearance constitute what there...