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...Editor of the SERVICE NEWS: I was very disappointed to hear about the new Harvard plan of requiring reading for the summer. Since this virtually eliminates the vacation, I don't think a Harvard education is worth this summer reading. Sincerely yours, Davis H. Crompton...
Died. Colonel Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton, 94, father of the British electrical industry, who installed electricity in Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle, famed as "the man who was slapped by Queen Victoria"; in London. His version of the royal slap: "The Queen never slapped me at all. She only punched me on the shoulder to emphasize the fact that she disagreed with everything I was doing about the electric lighting at the time. But the very next day she agreed to everything. She was a wonderful woman...
Married. Michael Whitney Straight, 23, son of the late Willard Dickerman Straight, founder of the New Republic and Asia, and of Mrs. Leonard Knight Elm-hirst, queen of Dartington Hall, vast educational experiment in Devonshire, England; and Belinda Booth Crompton, 19; in Wilton...
California has this year the biggest rush of tourists in its history, has taken from them at least $100,000,000 of new business. For this a quiet, gangling Texan named Clyde Milner Vandeburg (32), director of Fair promotion, and his assistant, beaming Crompton Bangs Jr. (29), former G-Man are largely responsible. Two years ago Promoter Vandeburg talked Fair managers into selling their Big Show rs a peg on which to hang a national campaign of travel to eleven far-western States instead of merely plugging San Francisco. To tie the westward movement into a national travel merry...
...American private-school men so love to deify, was recently "covered with arrangements for a Boy Scout Camp and for subsequent attendance at a jamboree, because a Scout is a brother to every other Scout, no matter of what social class." Harrow has done its bit by offering the "Crompton Elocution Prize for Clear Speaking into a Microphone...