Word: chapin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...case involves the complex dealings of three men: Dwight L. Chapin, who was the President's appointments secretary at the time of the Watergate bugging; Herbert W. Kalmbach, Nixon's personal attorney; and Donald Segretti, a California lawyer who Justice Department officials say has admitted trying to disrupt the campaigns of Democratic presidential candidates last year. In October, several publications, including TIME and the Washington Post, reported that Chapin had hired Segretti and that Kalmbach had paid Segretti out of funds collected by Nixon's re-election committee...
This brought protests from the White House. Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler charged that such reports were based "on hearsay, character assassination, innuendo or guilt by association." A White House release quoted Chapin as calling the reports "fundamentally inaccurate." Clark MacGregor, Nixon's campaign manager, insisted that "Dwight Chapin just simply was not involved in any way." He said such stories were inspired by "George McGovern and his partner in mudslinging, the Washington Post...
Handicapped. Actually the virus may have been partly responsible for one of Chapin's most popular innovations-the use of understudies to replace ailing stars. In the past a young hopeful's dream of stepping in at the Met often remained a fantasy, since half a dozen transatlantic phone calls would be made to get another singer with a big reputation. This season, however, when the celebrated tenor Franco Corelli canceled, Singer William Lewis was given a chance to sing Romeo -and filled the gap admirably...
...Chapin believes that artistic matters should be left to artists. He regards himself strictly as an administrator "with veto power." Pending the arrival next season of Artistic Director Rafael Kubelik, this policy has created a certain decision vacuum, one result of which has been a spate of scheduling snafus. Looking over the spring rehearsal calendar, the manager of one conductor discovered his client and the singers were scheduled for rehearsals on different dates. "The Met used to be run like an efficient concentration camp," he growled. "Now it's run like an inefficient day camp." The second half...
Gentele begged not to be judged by his first year: all of 1972-73 and most of 1973-74 had been locked into place by Ring. Chapin is doubly handicapped by having to work out the plans of two predecessors. He makes no secret of the fact that he would like to be given a solid mandate to lay plans of his own. He is respected in the music world; almost all of his staff is rooting for him. But Lowell Wadmond, chairman of the Met's board, will say only that Chapin has done "a good...