Word: chapman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvey is a Los Angeles aluminum fabricator who doesn't give up easily. He was all set to get a $46 million Government loan to make him the nation's fourth producer of aluminum (TIME, Oct. 1) when Interior Secretary Oscar Chapman blocked the loan. Chapman did not like some things he had heard about the Harvey company's work for the Navy during World War II. Bitter at the turndown, Harvey grudgingly went to the giant Anaconda Copper Mining Co. with a proposal. He knew that Anaconda was eager to find a steady source of aluminum...
WHATNOTS, in case you ever wondered, are just that. W. J. Chapman has been carving whatnots out of wood for over five years. Here we have a group of whatnots that happen to be animals. They sell for $2.00 apiece at 250 Boylston Street in Boston, and each is a tiny, exact, figure done in the animals natural coloring. But there are other whatnots, too,--amusing, workable, serious, and all fascinating in design and size...
Judges for this year's contest will be Academy Award winner Josephine Hull '99, who starred in "Harvey"; Armina Marshall, executive director of the Theatre Guild; Herschel Baker, associate professor of English; and Robert Chapman, instructor in English...
...John Chapman, drama critic of the New York Daily News, Marc Connelly, author of "The Green Pastures," and Lillian Hellman, author of "The Little Foxes," agreed with Richard Rodgers, composer and producer of "The King and I" that musicals "have, for the moment, taken the place of the serious drama on our stages, but not for good...
According to Chapman, musicals and serious plays have alternated in cycles. Drama is "just in a bad way now." He put much of the blame on colleges and universities, which are "falling down on the job" of teaching and inspiring new writers...