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...Princeton Tigers expect to offer the varsity heavyweight crew its toughest competition of the season when the two meet with M.I.T. and Rutgers this Saturday in the annual Compton Cup race...
...Week. Encouraged, perhaps, by the "Mister," Guinness applied to the Fay Compton Studio of Dramatic Art and somehow won a two-year scholarship. But could he afford to take it? His education fund allowed him 25 shillings (then $6.25) a week. By eating one meal a day (usually baked beans on toast), he managed to survive, and even to see a regular Saturday matinee. At school he worked hard; after hours, he tailed pedestrians all over London, mimicking their gait and gestures; and at the annual recital, the judges-Actor Gielgud among them-gave him a top prize...
...used-and-new Dodge. Pontiac and Plymouth car lots in Compton. Pasadena, Long Beach and Hollywood, Caruso refined cheating, double-dealing and intimidation into such a formalized art that he actually conducted regular classroom sessions to teach his salesmen (nine of whom got lighter sentences) how to go about it. Salesmen were instructed to get customers to sign blank contracts, later cut the trade-in allowance and raise the new car price they wrote in on the contract. They were taught to spout figures at a torrential rate to confuse the buyer, and to never put a deal in writing...
Against the Grain. In Green Bay, Wis., Police Radio Dispatcher Harold Compton, getting a complaint that two cars were going the wrong way on a one-way street, asked Car 44 to check, got the reply: "I'm one of those cars, and I'm pushing the other...
Beat the Enemy. Spotted as an administrator by M.I.T.'s late President Karl T. Compton, he was appointed M.I.T.'s assistant to the president (1939), executive vice president (1943) and vice president (1945) during the World War 11 years in which M.I.T.'s staff of scientists and engineers rose from 700 to more than 6,000. In 1948, when Compton resigned to become chairman of Washington's National Research and Development Board, Killian was named to succeed him. "We must continue," he said at his 1949 inauguration, "to muster the democratic ranks of American scientists into...