Word: comptons
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...tell); a crossword puzzle emphasizing global words (No. i across: "goal of the U.N." in five letters); and a four-page picture sequence showing U.N. delegates shaking hands and grinning vaguely at each other. In its table of contents were names like Pearl Buck, Arthur Compton, Trygve Lie, Edouard Herriot; on its editorial masthead were names like William L. Shirer, Thomas Mann, Jawaharlal Nehru, Vincent Sheean and Lin Yutang. The magazine's real head is Publisher Egbert White, a former Manhattan advertising executive who ran Yank and the Mediterranean Stars and Stripes for the Army...
...people who sent their children there were a measure of its success: they included college presidents (Compton of M.I.T., Conant of Harvard, Carmichael of Tufts); bishops (Dun of Washington, Nash of Massachusetts); professors (Harvard Law School's Thomas Reed Powell, Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead...
...fact which the President emphasized this week when he rebuked Dr. Karl Compton for failing to point that out in a recent Atlantic Monthly article...
...Karl T. Compton, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, pointed out in reply that "most students are former G.I.'s to whom the colleges have obligations," and that if the law were passed, it would be impossible for M.I.T. to operate...
...Appointed a nine-man commission to draft a U.S. peacetime universal training plan. The chairman, chosen by the commission members: Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Karl T. Compton...