Word: chapman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...already received as many as three threatening, anonymous phone calls a week. But it was not until last month that a segregationist legislator named Jerry Sadler blasted the "octopus on the hill" (i.e., the university) for mixing "whites and blacks in an opera." Later another segregationist. Representative Joe Chapman, phoned the university's President Logan Wilson to discuss the matter. Though he denies threatening Wilson, the fact remained that the university's appropriations were about to come up before the legislature. Result: President Wilson suddenly decided that Dido must be white...
When the Harvard Dramatic Club's production of "La Ronde" opens tonight, it will be slightly "toned down" due to the advice of Robert H. Chapman, associate professor of English, according to Director Robert Jordan...
Jordan said yesterday that before the dress rehearsal he cut a total of about three pages of script from the Eric Bentley translation of Arthur Schnitzler's play. He said he also "eased up" on certain pieces of blocking to accord with Chapman's suggestion that certain parts of the original might "shock people...
...Crimson golfers clinched a winning record for the season yesterday, defeating both B.C. and Williams, five to two. Crimson leadoff man Tom Wheeling and B.C.'s State Amateur champ Charley Volpone were upset in the number one match by Williams' Blaise Chapman...
Representatives Joseph Chapman and Jerry Sadler were the chief instigators of the plan and both men made contact with President John Wilson of UT. Sadler had previously made a speech before an Austin gathering opposing the casting of a Negress and suggesting that it would be very difficult for the University to get any appropriations from the state legislature that year...