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...spite of the temporary loss of Chaco, Varsity stroke, the outcome of the Compton Cup regatta with M.I.T. next Saturday is viewed by Nowell Boat House habitues with optimism, Chaco, due to a cold, was unable to set the beat yesterday and Roger Cutler, second string timer, took over the job. Cutler will swing the Varsity oar again today until Chaco's recovery, anticipated by the doctor on Wednesday, puts him back at stroke in the second boat. In the Jayvees yesterday Kernan went forward to pull the number two sweep and Roosevelt returned to his post...
Adopted. By James John ("Jimmy") Walker, 55, onetime (1925-32) Mayor of New York City; and Betty Compton Walker, 29, onetime musicomedienne; the two-month-old daughter of a 15-year-old unwed mother; from "The Cradle," famed Evanston, Ill. orphanage (TIME, May 20). Name: Mary Patricia Walker. Premature news of the adoption caused the Walkers to announce they had given up the adoption plan, return to Manhattan. Four days later they quietly went back to Evanston to take Mary Patricia away...
Heading the list of Nobel winners will be Albert Einstein who will discuss some aspects of physics. The others are Neils Bohr, physics; Hans Fischer, chemistry; Arthur H. Compton, physics; Sir Frederick G. Hopkins, physiology and medicine; Robert A. Millikan, physics; Friedrich Bergius, chemistry; August Krogh, physiology and medicine; Theodore Svedberg, chemistry; Otto Warburg, physiology and medicine; Karl Landsteiner, physiology and medicine; Edgar D. Adrian, physiology and medicine; Werner Heisenberg, physics; and Hans Spemann, physiology and medicine...
...pious layman into the profession of a spy-or rather into the British Intelligence Service. Next he was attached to the legal office of the British Admiralty. Of late years he has served as Attorney General, a post which in Britain does not carry full Cabinet rank. When Novelist Compton Mackenzie in 1932 disclosed some of the secrets of the Intelligence Service, he was promptly and successfully prosecuted by Attorney General Inskip. Since 1934, Sir Thomas has become the villain of an entire literature penned by indignant Britons who contend that an act which he put through the House...
President Cousens of Tufts, present head of the organization, will preside. Also on the committee are President Conant of Harvard, President Compton of M.I.T., and President Marsh of Boston University, who are all past or present executives of Phi Beta Kappa, Joseph E. Perry, Williams '09 and a graduate of Harvard Law School, is secretary-treasurer...