Word: chapman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John J. Chapman '49, of Eliot House, sustained a fractured right collar bone, plus lacerations of the face at 1:15 o'clock last night when the car in which he and three companions were riding crashed head-on into a steel partition on the Massachusetts Avenue railroad bridge between St. Botolph's Street and Columbia...
...rival teams began early and has never stopped. The first time the Dodgers played St. Louis, the Cards grumbled about playing on the same field with a Negro. They changed their minds-under pressure. Philadelphia was worse, because there the opposition had the open support of Phillies Manager Ben Chapman. He bawled insults at Robinson from the dugout. Chapman's second-division Phillies, notoriously the crudest bench-jockeys in baseball, chimed in. Says Rookie Robbie: "I'd get mad. But I'd never let them know it." The Phillies management finally called down Chapman...
Irwin Shaw, 34, veteran promising-young-playwright (Bury the Dead, The Assassin), invited by the New Republic to be its new drama critic, won a scorchingwarm welcome to the New York Drama Critics' Circle. Wrote New York Daily News Critic John Chapman to Newcomer Shaw, who once carved the hides from the critics for criticizing his plays: "I will want to follow every syllable of Mr. Shaw's postmortems. ... I will be sitting at the foot of a master eager for the smallest drops of instruction. ... I shall read his every word, hoping ... to learn more about...
...play major-league ball again. He is still so stiff that he cannot make shoestring catches. But by applying base-running technique to his ball-chasing, he manages to be one of the most spectacular fielders in the game. Last week he was doing more than that for Ben Chapman's last-place Phillies: with a .344 average, he was leading both leagues in hitting and had a 16-point margin over his nearest National League competitor...
...year after a tour of combat duty in Europe, he was used sparingly by Manager Eddie Dyer and had a poor year except for some timely World's Series hitting. This season he got off to a bad start and the Cardinals traded him to the Phillies. Ben Chapman made him a regular, and Harry immediately began to hit as he had never hit before...