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...conditions were approximately the same in both races, with the Varsity winning the Compton Cup for the sixth straight year by a length and a quarter and the Yardlings all but leaving their opponents hull down astern. When a crew gets that far ahead the tendency is for a general let-down, but apparently the Freshmen didn't relax very much, and the Varsity never moved for enough ahead to take their minds off the business at hand...
...Varsity race for the Compton Cup, which has been in the Newell lockers for lo, these many years, should see a hot fight develop for second place, but if Captain Ted Lyman's sweepswingers are greatly extended in winning their second race of the season, it will be an evil omen...
Seijiro's family did not know what had become of Seijiro last week. With eleven other Japanese families, they were packed into the classrooms of a Japanese-language school in Los Angeles. Said Seijiro's oldest son, 23-year-old Takeshi Suchiya, a pre-med at Compton District Junior College when the FBI rounded up his family: "When we stop to think it over, most of us understand the necessity for evacuation. But the immediate reaction is, we have got some rights as Americans. . . . I know my parents are loyal, yet they have been picked up. Anyhow...
...want to know it. Fifteen companies,* with nearly $1,000,000 in subscriptions, last week incorporated the non-profit Nutrition Foundation. Its purposes: 1) to establish cooperative research laboratories; 2) broadcast their nutritional findings freely. To head their foundation they got no less a scientist-administrator than Karl Taylor Compton, 54, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...Said Dr. Compton: "It is my hope that this foundation may be an example and pattern of what an industrial group can do when it devotes a portion of its energies and resources to a sincere effort to help humanity without thought of self-interest ... by so doing it will, in the long run, have well served its own interests...