Word: chapman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John K. Chapman '69 presented the petitions and asked Butler what he would do in response. Butler said, "I am not going to promote the painters' apprentices...
Family has been together since 1967, but remained relatively unknown until this year. Ric Grech and Jim King left the group last summer, and Grech went on to play bass for a widely publicized, but short-lived coalition known as Blind Faith. The foundation of the group-singer Roger Chapman and guitarist John Whitney-remained, however, and they created a new Family. They eliminated Grech's cello and King's oft-times superfluous saxophone, and supplanted them with vibes and an electric flute...
...retention of Chapman was most important. His voice's range is comparable to that of Stevie Winwood, late of Traffic and Blind Faith. Chapman draws at will on a nasal, resonant, almost English country twang that rolls words and phrases in a wholly distinctive way. Chapman's voice is important because, in Family's disconnected lyrics full of pauses and doubled over phrases-this quality provides a means of converting lapses and repetitions into an air of powerful expectation. This, in turn, transmits a particular excitement...
...completed on April 15, and will eventually drop to 10,000. The withdrawal also signals a new battle for the Marines, whose future role is now being re-evaluated in the light of U.S. military needs and the Corps' showing in Viet Nam. Says Corps Commandant Leonard Chapman Jr.: "1970 has become the critical year of transition...
Lyons has been legging it for 35 years. He broke in during the gossip column's heyday: among New York's reigning tyrants were Walter Winchell, Damon Runyon, Mark Hellinger, Ed Sullivan, Louis Sobol, John Chapman. "I was at the bottom of the pile," says Lyons, "so I went out and started digging up my own news." He has seen the name-dropping column go through a steady decline, but the rise of Suzy Knickerbocker is a sign that people still long for columns that celebrate celebrity. There will always be newspaper readers, says Lyons, "whose appetites...