Word: chapman
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When Virgil Chapman moved up to the U.S. Senate in 1948, the man who stepped into his old seat as Congressman from Kentucky's Bluegrass sixth district was Thomas R. Underwood, 53, a husky, bushy-haired newspaper editor (the Lexington Herald) and amiable, self-effacing member of Kentucky's ruling Democratic Big Five. Last week Tom Underwood stepped up to replace Chapman once again. Nine days after Virgil Chapman's death as a result of a Washington automobile accident (TiME, March 19), Congressman Underwood was named to fill the Senate vacancy...
Died. Virgil Munday Chapman, 55, Democratic Senator from Kentucky since 1949, for 22 years before that a Representative from Kentucky's Bourbon County, who generally voted with the Administration on foreign issues, against it on domestic ones; after a motor collision with a truck; in Bethesda...
...Washington Administration supporters expressed surprise at the speed and smoothness with which Senators Richard Russell and Lyndon Johnson of the Armed Services Committee handled the bill. It was all the more amazing, he felt, considering the death of Senator Virgil Chapman, the day before he was scheduled to lead debate in favor of the proposal. There are jokers, however, in this bill and in the House measure, that the Defense Department and strong backers of UMST would like to see removed. Further articles in this series will discuss the Draft bills in detail, and the second type of major struggle...
...snake, which supposedly eats its young. Another bump of curiosity is excited by the Old Testament. Questioners want to know if Adam was divorced (from Lilith, according to Jewish folklore); whom Cain married (possibly his sister Awan); who was Noah's wife (probably Naamah). For no reason that Chapman and his associates can figure out, the most recurrent question is: "Do Indians have beards...
Last week two new Answer Men began broadcasting, one in Greece (Aftos Pou Sola Apanda) and one in Turkey (Hazircevap Adam). As in every other foreign country, Chapman was warned not to expect the same lively and miscellaneous curiosity he is used to in the U.S. "Europeans are different," he is repeatedly told. Says Chapman: "They don't seem very different to me. One of the questions Europeans ask most frequently is 'Do Indians have beards...