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...HERITAGE AND ITS HISTORY (249 pp.)-Ivy Compton-Burnett-Simon & Schuster...
...such paradoxes, Britain's Ivy Compton-Burnett has raised a resigned hymn to fate. Her 16 fictional comedies resemble nothing so much as tragedy. A spinster just this side of 70, Novelist Compton-Burnett is a literary cross between Grandma Moses and a Greek Fury. Her plots, characters and settings are primitive, repetitive, even ludicrous, but the insights she extracts from them are as sophisticated...
Situation Adjustment. In Compton, Calif., when burglars held up Liquor Store Owner Max Stanman, and invited the half a dozen customers in the store to help themselves, customers and crooks alike marched out with arms full...
...Julius Stratton can claim major credit. No narrow specialist-he left Cambridge in 1923 to study French literature at the universities of Grenoble and Toulouse, still refreshes himself by reading French and German history in the original-Stratton is humanist as well as scientist. Under President (1930-48) Karl Compton, who first aimed M.I.T. toward real scientific eminence, Stratton taught electrical engineering and physics, won wide respect for his wartime radar research and later for his administrative abilities in organizing the institute's Research Laboratory of Electronics. Under President (now Board Chairman) Killian, who made him right-hand...
Summary of Compton Cup Regatta. Varsity: Harvard, 8:45; Princeton, 8:53.2; Dartmouth, 8:58.6; M.I.T., 9:09.3; B.U., 9:18.6. Winning margin, 2 lengths. Junior Varsity: Harvard, 9:30.6; Dartmouth, 9:40.7; Princeton, 9:45.1; M.I.T., 9:53.5. Winning margin, 2 1/2 lengths. Freshman: Harvard, 9:48; Princeton, 9:52.7; Dartmouth, 10:07.8; M.I.T., 10:16.2; B.U., 10:23. Winning margin, 1 1/4 lengths...