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...another war will wipe everybody off the face of the earth," mused Nobel Physicist Arthur H. Compton, with scientific caution. "That's pretty extreme. And it won't destroy civilization -there'll be some pieces left. But it will be an enormous setback. We'll have to start all over, from 'way back...
Married. Arthur Alan Compton, 29, U.S. State Department representative on UNESCO's staff, son of Nobel Physicist Arthur Holly Compton; and Nathalie Xenie Felser, 28, daughter of Parisian Banker Emanuel L. Felser; in Mexico City...
Wallace is expected to reach Cambridge shortly before 7 o'clock this evening, following an afternoon speech in Lowell. He will go directly to the Faculty Club, where Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, will tender him a dinner. Karl T. Compton, president of M.I.T. will be among those in the party...
...unremitting celebration." The fourth oldest college in the U.S. had honored its past by inviting men from all over the world to discuss the World's future. Throughout the year, hundreds of statesmen and scholars, including Historian Arnold J. Toynbee, Philosopher William E. Hocking, Physicists Karl T. Compton and J. Robert Oppenheimer, Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, Biologist J. B. S. Haldane, had come & gone...
...have every confidence in the committee appointed by the President, which included President Compton of M.I.T. and President Dodds of Princeton. I know this committee has made a very exhaustive study of the highly complex problem...