Word: chapman
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Married. Princess Natalie Paley, 31, daughter of the late Grand Duke Paul of Russia; to John Chapman Wilson, 38, producer for Noel Coward; in Fairfield, Conn...
...trade union, most of whose members enjoy substantial salaries and agreeable working conditions, is as much a professional fraternity as a union. Such a group is the American Guild of Musical Artists, formed last year as a result of a golfing conversation between Baritone Lawrence Tibbett and Baritone Frank Chapman, the personable, amiable husband of Contralto Gladys Swarthout (TIME, June 8, 1936). Tibbett is still president. The Guild, whose aim was frankly to protect the prestige rather than the purses of its members, signed up 400 of the elite of U. S. opera singers and concert artists, everyone from Richard...
...patron saint of U. S. applemen, Johnny Appleseed, whose real name was Jonathan Chapman, was first recorded as a slim 25-year-old who in 1801 turned up in Licking County, Ohio, leading a packhorse laden with apple seed brought from a Pennsylvania cider mill. At suitable spots Johnny stopped to plant his seed in neat rows for the benefit of settlers to come.* Far in advance of the frontier he roamed, following Indian trails or pushing rude boats, always planting new seed and returning periodically to tend the young trees. Soon the whole frontier knew him, gladly gave...
...naturalists as well as furriers have an interest in the chinchilla. No chinchilla has ever been kept alive in a U. S. zoo more than a year. The temperate climate of the U. S. is completely unsuited to the creature's constitution. In 1913 one M. F. Chapman of Los Angeles went high into the Chilean Andes, managed to trap a dozen. He brought them down gradually, kept them at 11,000 ft. for two years, 9,000 ft. for a year. It took him nearly six years to reach sea level. During the 8,000 mi. voyage...
Another Geology 1 section man, Charles S. Denny, is carrying on research for his degree in New Mexico and Colorado, Carleton A. Chapman, instructor in Petrography, is working in New Hampshire. And Richard P. Goldwait, assistant in Geology, will also be in New Hampshire, Goldwait is studying glaciology, and his work will center around glaciar-carved Mt. Washington...