Word: chapman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chapman Andrews, famed Gobi Desert explorer, quit as director of the American Museum of Natural History, explaining that since the museum now needs new financing more than dinosaur eggs, "the problems confronting the institution . . . are not those for which I am particularly fitted. . . ." Senator Alben William Berkley made a speech in Memphis, fainted afterward of "fatigue and excitement." W. C. Fields went on the wagon again, predicted no good would come...
...weekly hops throughout the year, will be seventy-five cents a couple to cover costs. Alan M. Winklestein '42 and Philip M. Foisie '44 will do the calling accompanied by Louis Rule '43 and Seymour Breslow '43 on the fiddle, Norris Tibbets '42 on the piano, and James Chapman '45 on the guitar...
...reason to be severe. I.M.M. management has been under fire for years. Last June a stockholders' suit brought by Paul Wadsworth Chapman (one of the founders of U.S. Lines) was settled for $750,000. Chapman charged, among other things, that I.M.M. had given Tide Water Associated Oil an over-juicy contract to supply its oil. In the settlement, Tide Water agreed to forego $375,000 in accrued dividends. He further charged that in the early '30s, U.S. Lines contracted away its operating division to a concern headed by Kermit Roosevelt, son of T. R. Kermit's company...
Hollywood studios spare no lacquer in slicking up new, glamorizable names for their young hopefuls (e.g., Margarita Cansino to Rita Hayworth, Melvyn Hesselberg to Melvyn Douglas, Frances Gumm to Judy Garland). Recently Cinecolumnist John Chapman reported a Hollywood moniker to end all Hollywood monikers...
Died. Dr. Walter Granger, 68, explorer and curator of fossil mammals for the American Museum of Natural History; in Lusk, Wyo. He explored the Gobi Desert with Roy Chapman Andrews, helped establish the age of Peking Man at about 500,000 years...