Word: chapin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Roy Dikeman Chapin Jr., son of the late Hudson Motors head and onetime Secretary of Commerce; to Ruth Mary Ruxton, of New York and Greenwich, Conn.; in Manhattan...
Baxter. In Chapin Hall, Williamstown, Mass., where 23 years before he had delivered a student's valedictory, Dr. James Phinney Baxter III, became at 44 the tenth president of Williams College. Historian Baxter: "We are witnessing the collapse of the world's system of collective security. . . . Our own country . . . has placed on the statute books a new system of neutrality which in the opinion of many careful students is more likely to involve us in war than our old system...
...while he was poking about in the Ituri forest of the Belgian Congo, young Ornithologist James P. Chapin came upon a grinning black native proudly wearing in his headdress a brown and black feather. Dr. Chapin promptly appropriated it, for it resembled the feather of a pheasant, or peacock, and those birds, both Asiatic, had no business in Africa...
Last year Dr. Chapin, 48, now associate curator of Manhattan's Museum of Natural History-a lean man with snapping eyes, unruly grey hair and a sandy mustache-was in the Congo Museum in Tervueren, Belgium, finishing research for a book he was writing. Deciding he had need of the museum director, who was studying shells on the fourth floor, he trotted up the stairs, idled along a quiet corridor. Suddenly on top of a dusty exhibit case, he saw a pair of unfamiliar birds. He grabbed them, lugged them to the director, demanded an explanation. They had been...
...weeks later with two dogs and a native hunter Dr. Chapin walked out of a little Congo mining camp into the jungle. The dogs flushed a pair of birds, the native fired, the male of the pair dropped to the ground. It was Dr. Chapin's long-sought bird. Of the pheasant family, it was feathered in metallic blacks, blues, greens, reds, had a long pink neck, small head, a curious, strawlike tuft protruding from its forehead. He named it "Congo Peacock,'' soon learned it was fairly common, traveled in pairs, but lived only in virgin jungle...