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...left to bone up for the election, U.S. citizens were not exactly rushing to buy books about the candidates. Stanley Walker's new campaign biography, Dewey; an American of This Century (Whittlesey House; $2.50), was no more a best seller than the year's two Roosevelt books: Compton Mackenzie's Mr. Roosevelt, Noel F. Busch's What Manner...
Died. Betty Compton (Mrs. Theodore Knappen), 38, onetime musicomedy star, onetime Mrs. James John ("Jimmy") Walker; of an illness which followed the birth of her first child (TIME, Jan. 31); in Manhattan...
...beginning of World War II the family owned some 180,000 acres, Chatsworth House, Hardwick Hall, Bolton Abbey, Compton Place, Lismore Castle in Ireland and a town house in Carlton Gardens (now a heap of blitzed rubble). The Cavendishes rank well up among the "twelve families that own England." Their coat of arms: sable, three bucks' heads cabossed argent with a crest of a serpent nowed proper and two bucks, each wreathed round the neck with a chaplet of roses, argent and azure, as supporters. The Cavendish motto: Cavendo Tutus, Secure by Caution...
...M.I.T. whose laboratories include the U.S. headquarters for electronic research, 478 irreplaceable men under 26 (not including 4-Fs) faced imminent in duction. A dozen had already gone. Said M.I.T. President Karl T. Compton: "Selective Service is rapidly becoming no longer selective...
Born. To Mrs. Theodore Knappen, 38, onetime musicomedy star Betty Compton, ex-wife of Manhattan's James John Walker, and Theodore Knappen, 43, civil engineer: a son, Theodore Compton, her first child; in Manhattan...