Word: chapman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Richard D. Chapman (see below), and Eloise Geist Sheaffer, 34, Philadelphia sportswoman; in Montgomery, Ala., second day after Chapman's divorce; his third, her second...
...merchant vessels from a European port (presumably Norway) to England. The problem is complicated cinematically because 1) the convoying cruiser's Lieut. Cranford (John Clements) is supposed to have run away with, then deserted the wife of Cruiser Captain Armitage (Clive Brook); 2) crusty old Captain Eckersley (Edward Chapman) of the tramp steamer Seaflower prefers to go it alone, keeps dropping out of the convoy, unconsciously betraying its presence to German U-boats. Aboard the Seaflower is the runaway wife (Judy Campbell) and a hold full of frightened Jewish refugees. By the picture's end Lieut. Cranford...
Douglas E. Bragdon 1G, Portland, Mc.; Hugh H. Chapman, Jr. 2G, Evansville, Ind.; Thomas D. Durrance 1G, Washington, D. C.; David M. Pratt 2G, Williams town, Mass.; Lloyd G. Carr 1G, Waynesbore, Va.; Kendrick S. Fow 1G, Durham, N. C.; Curtis B. Watson 1G, Haverford, Pa.; and Carl P. Swanson 4G, Pigeon Cove, Mass...
...history or in fiction") wanted him to be an artist. So Seton straddled both careers, became rich & famous. Studying art at London's Royal Academy School, he planned a book on the birds of Canada, years later had his method of classification adopted by master Ornithologist Frank M. Chapman. He illustrated Chapman's and Thomas Nuttail's bird handbooks, began writing and illustrating stories...
...gave "in fiction form the actual facts of an animal's life and modes of thought." Many doubted this, and a great controversy over "the Nature Fakers" began in 1904 when John Burroughs, in The Atlantic Monthly, abused Seton and his disciples as frauds and phony naturalists. Ornithologist Chapman, Novelist Hamlin Garland, Sportsman Teddy Roosevelt defended Seton...