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...Never-Sweats. The son of a professor of philosophy at Ohio's College of Wooster, Karl Compton hardly seemed the type destined for so distinguished a career. Unlike his bookish brother Arthur, who had written a serious treatise on elephants' toes at the age of ten, Karl was the friendly campus hero who captained the Wooster football squad and pitched on a local baseball team known as the "Never-Sweats" (the Never-Sweats' catcher: a young fellow named Ben Fairless, now boss of U.S. Steel). Eventually, however, he got his M.A. at Wooster, later taught at Portland...
...Karl Compton's 18 years as president were golden years for M.I.T. He completed the great George Eastman Research Laboratory of Physics and Chemistry, set up the Graduate School, reorganized the undergraduate course to give M.I.T.'s science and engineering students a better grounding in the liberal arts. During the war, he helped mastermind the atomic bomb project, saw M.I.T. and Harvard turn Cambridge, Mass, into the radar center of the world...
Booked Until September. From his great paneled office in the Administration Building, Compton ran his campus with a firm but informal hand. He turned out some 300 articles on everything from thermionics to spectroscopy, helped found the American Institute of Physics, kept in constant touch with brother Arthur Holly Compton (who won the Nobel Prize and became chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis), brother Wilson Martindale Compton (who served as president of the State College of Washington), and sister Mary (who married the president of Allahabad University in India). Profoundly patriotic, he was a constant commuter to Washington, served...
...when President Truman called on him to be head of the National Research Development Board of the Military Establishment, Karl Compton retired as head of M.I.T. On the day the news broke, scores of students stopped him on campus to shake his hand ("It's nice.'' said he, "but they don't know how it hurts"). In 1949, on doctor's orders, he was forced to resign from the nation's top scientific post. He went back to M.I.T. as chairman of the corporation. "It is as true today," he once told a graduating...
Died. Dr. Karl Taylor Compton, 66, onetime (1930-48) president of M.I.T. and head (1948-49) of the National Research Development Board of the Military Establishment; of a heart attack; in Manhattan (see EDUCATION...