Word: chapman
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Controversy keeps dogging Louis Elwood Wolfson. On grounds that he had milked the company of millions, the Government in 1956 refused to renew his contract to run the Capital Transit bus-and-trolley line in Washington, D.C. In 1958, Merritt-Chapman & Scott Co., of which Wolfson is chairman and controlling shareholder, pleaded nolo contendere to charges of bribing a county official in Washington State to help win the big Priest Rapids Dam construction job; the company paid a penalty of $50,000. Also that year, the Securities & Exchange Commission charged that Wolfson tried to drive down the market in American...
Controversy has not abandoned Wolfson, now a greying man of 54, although he has abandoned most of his ventures except Merritt-Chapman and his profitable hobby of breeding race horses at his Harbor View Stable in Florida (1965 winnings: nearly $1,000,000). Last week a federal grand jury in Manhattan hit him with the first criminal indictment in his career...
...PASSIONATE PRODIGALITY, by Guy Chapman. This reissue of an authentic classic of World War I is more than an unforgettable memoir of life and death in the trenches; it stands as an elegy for an entire generation...
...PASSIONATE PRODIGALITY, by Guy Chapman. This reissue of an authentic classic of World War I is more than an unforgettable memoir of life and death in the trenches; it stands as an elegy for an entire generation...
...last play of the season, George Etheridge's The Man of Mode, or Sir Fopling Flutter, will be directed by Robert II. Chapman, director of the Loeb. It is an early example of the comic form later developed by Wycherly and Congreve, and will be produced in mid-December