Word: chapman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play by Robert H. Chapman, assistant professor of English, and Louis Cox, will be produced by the Harvard Theatre Groups late in April...
...Chapman and Cox are the authors of "Billy Budd," recently produced on Broadway...
...last 20 years, big-dealing Louis Wolfson has built up from scratch an empire with assets he estimates at $100 million plus. Among them: Manhattan's famed building firm of Merritt-Chapman & Scott (Wolfson is chairman), a chain of 21 Florida theaters, Washington's Capital Transit Co., which controls the streetcars and buses in the capital...
...surplus Tampa Shipbuilding Co. Within two years, he and his brothers liquidated it for a profit of $4,000,000. They also liquidated the supply company for another $2,500,000 profit. With wealthy business friends, they organized a "Florida syndicate" to buy control of Merritt-Chapman & Scott. Wolfson, who grew up with Politician Fuller Warren, contributed $100,000 to Warren's successful campaign for governor, and later, on a low competitive bid, won a contract to build a $3,000,000 bridge for the state. But after a furore was raised over Warren's campaign contributions, Wolfson...
...defenses of Britain's "naked island" fortress, Singapore. Singapore fell, but Gunner Braddon lived, not to fight but to write another day. The result is a gutty, scalp-raising account of the "war of capitulation" in Southeast Asia, and the best book of its kind since F. Spencer Chapman's The Jungle Is Neutral (TIME, Sept...