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...family into which Arthur Compton was born 43 years ago in Wooster, Ohio, is something for students of heredity and environment to cluck over. The father is Elias Compton, Ph.D., D.D., Presbyterian clergyman, longtime professor of philosophy and psychology at the College of Wooster. The mother is Otelia Catherine Augspurger Compton, sprig of a German Mennonite family, who three years ago got an LL.D. for being "wife and mother of the Comptons." The parents did not try to choose careers for their four children but encouraged their natural bents. ''We used the Bible," said Father Elias, "and common...
Hardened by summers in the Michigan woods, the boys distinguished themselves in Wooster athletics. Karl kicked the longest field goal in Wooster history. He grew up to be president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, chairman of President Roosevelt's Science Advisory Board, a burning advocate of Federal aid to science. In St. Louis last week, as incoming president of the A. A. A. S., he decried the AAA (see p. 12), urged that new industrial uses be found for agricultural products...
...WOOSTER LAMBERT...
TIME gladly straightens the record of the Original Eight who back Col. Lindbergh. Besides Brothers Wooster & Albert Bond Lambert (Listerine), they were: Banker Harold McMillan Bixby, credited with naming the Lindbergh plane Spirit of St. Louis; the late Banker Harry F. Knight, his son & partner Harry Hall Knight; Publisher E. Lansing Ray of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Major William Bryan Robertson, vice president of Curtiss-Wright Airplane Co.. Earl C. Thompson, then operator of a one-plane sightseeing service at St. Louis Airport, now selling stocks, bonds & insurance at Kennett...
...March 24 I attended a theatre in Wooster and saw Will Rogers reading TIME in Life Begins at 40. Has anyone else noticed...