Word: chapman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Angeles, in a "deliberately arranged mismatch," John Barber, 6 ft. 6 in. center for Los Angeles State College, playing nothing but offense, scored 188 points in a basketball game against Los Angeles' Chapman College. Final score: 208-82. The game, explained State College Coach Sax Elliott, was his answer to Rio Grande's Bevo (116 points) Francis...
When Dwight Eisenhower asked Robert Chapman Sprague to serve as Under Secretary of the Air Force, the choice seemed a good one. A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy (1920) and a Navy construction expert before he entered private business in 1926, Sprague had served on many a Government- industry committee, knew his way around a bureau. He bustled down to Washington a week before inauguration, spent more time learning his job than any other Defense Department nominee...
...Body (TIME, Dec. 22) began its Broadway run last week. The show starring Judith Anderson, Tyrone Power and Raymond Massey, had already covered 14,000 miles, given 80 performances m 60 cities. Most of Manhattan's critics gave John Brown & Co. columns of raves. The dissenter: John Chapman, of the tabloid Daily News, recommended the show to those who "are looking for a nap. . . It was only duty which kept me from dozing through a large part of the artistically elaborate and physically unintersting proceedings...
This is the first time the HTG has premiered a play. Chapman will act as general overseer and director with an eye to future Broadway production...
...Chapman is currently lecturing in jampacked English 160. Earlier in the week, Josh Logan of "South Pacific" made a guest lecture appearance...