Word: chapman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four housewives were indeed something special-perhaps even formidable. They were Mrs. Theodore S. Chapman of Jerseyville, Ill., a widow, a successful farm operator and president-elect...
...Eddie Chapman is a gay dog. International society intellectuals like Director John Huston admire his mind, and blondes his wire-and-whipcord body. He can keep a pub in fits of laughter or a softly lit drawing room at hushed attention. He is Mayfair's favorite criminal ("I'd like you to meet Eddie Chapman, my smuggler friend. Tell us about the jobs you've pulled lately, Eddie"). And low society in Britain pays him homage, for in his time, Eddie was the prince of safecrackers. After the war, it became apparent to all his acquaintances that...
...poor man's son, born in England's industrial north, Eddie Chapman enlisted in the Coldstream Guards and was discharged (for overstaying his leave in a brunette's apartment) before he was 19. Two years later he was famous as the leader of the Gelignite Gang, which specialized in blowing safes. "Eddie gets nervous at the thought of anything locked up," said friends proudly. He drove a low-slung car, had a West End flat stocked with a succession of girls, and was well known in Soho's nightclubs. Caught on a routine job one night...
...followed on stage by Dr. McAdam (Miles Malleson), a lovable, bumbling country practitioner. The local "artist" (Roland Culver) is also there, and the artist's wife (Elizabeth Allan). The wife's lover (Colin Gordon), a big doublethink expert on the BBC, and the local Labor M.P. (Edward Chapman) complete the ambitious chaplain's board of experts...
...MERRITT-Chapman & Scott, one of the top-U.S. construction and salvage firms, is going into the steel business. Having recently bought the Milton (Pa.) Electric Steel Corp., it now wants to buy a second steelmaker, the $31 million Newport (Ky.) Steel Corp., which has an annual ingot capacity of 709,000 net tons. The offer: one share of Merritt-Chapman stock (value: $28½ per share) for every 2.1 shares (1,078,547 outstanding) of Newport Steel...