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...Democrats and independents apparently did jump into the more exciting Republican contest-but they voted overwhelmingly for Ford. Doing so, they also deprived Carter of much support he might have had. Why did they do it? At least one motive was explained by Detroit Public Relations Counselor James P. Chapman, who supports Carter but voted for Ford: "Reagan's right-wing aggressiveness scares the hell out of me. If he gets the nomination, there's always a chance he can be elected...
...Carl Mays killed Roy Chapman...
...billing with the live players' stage antics. When John Cleese delivers a diatribe to a shyster pet-shop owner while flogging the dead parrot that has been sold to him, the funning is lethally potent. So is the spoof on TV wrestling, in which the solo performer, Graham Chapman, is finger-jabbed and pretzel-twisted by an invisible opponent...
...someone was to comment so aptly in The Crimson the next day, with the first speaker, in a white suit and reading something you couldn't understand from Virginia Woolf, forgetting the part about half way through and just kind of sweating it out until the end when Mr. Chapman--that's Mr. Robert Chapman, who ran the contest--says real politely as if nothing happened, Your time is up. You could tell the guy would fuck up when he started by asking Mr. Chapman who the judges were, as if it was a military tribunal. There I am laughing...
...letter Chapman says he'd like to have a "chat" with each contestant. He doesn't say a "talk" or a "meeting" because you can just tell, as I could see later, that he's the type of person who would chat--with a sort of clipped voice and neat and understated way of dressing. So up to Chapman's office, and he says that I should drop the English accent I was using to get the feeling of the piece across. He says that one of the judges pointed out that Orwell--who's dead now--wouldn't have...