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PRINCETON, May 19--In any other of the past 19 Compton Cup races the varsity crew would have set a cup record this afternoon, and would be considered a strong favorite to win the Yale race on June 16. The crew rowed a handsome race covering the mile and three-quarter course over Lake Carnegie in 8:46.8, over two seconds faster than the local cup record made by the 1954 Crimson eight...
This effort, however, was not enough to withstand Princeton's groomed oarsmen, who set a Compton Cup mark in defeating the Crimson, Dartmouth, and M.I.T. in that order. The victory established Princeton as the third best crew in Eastern competition, behind Cornell and Yale, and made the varsity an underdog against the Elis in June...
...characters are exploited by the director, Compton Burnett, to dramatize their own predicament. The officer, Commandant Hohensee (Marius Goring) is made to say things like, "What we share--our music, our talks--has nothing to do with the war." This may be so, but he would not say it, and the girl would not reply, "But you are a German." Even though Maria Schell, as the daughter, is a lovely woman, it is hard to listen to the words she has been given. The "minor key" in which the movie is set seems more like a series of uneasy moments...
...rest of the schedule: May 5--Pennsylvania and Navy at Annapolis (Adams Cup); May 12--Eastern Sprints at Washington; May 19--Princeton, Dartmouth, and M.I.T. at Princeton (Compton...
...digital computers and other instrumentation devices. War-time discoveries in circuit theories led to the development of increasingly complicated calculators. Recent research includes work on a machine that will translate languages and turn speech into writing. As a memorial to the Institute's ninth president, Dr. Karl T. Compton, a center in which all of M.I.T.'s calculators will be concentrated is under construction...