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...Billy Budd is just a little bit too good to be true, and Claggart--what motivates the man to behave so meanly? You find yourself wondering why he is in secure--but then you realize that Melville didn't think in those terms and playwrights Louis Coxe and Robert Chapman haven't worried about bringing the plot up to date psychologically...
...Wolfson contributed "in excess of $150,000" to Democrat Fuller Warren's successful campaign in 1948 for governor. Manhattan's Merritt-Chapman & Scott, of which Wolfson is board chairman, now has a $3,588,959 contract building the bridge substructure for Jacksonville's new $50 million expressway. The firm, whose total backlog is $89 million, has many big projects outside Florida, including part of California's $30 million Folsom...
...adorning the robes of kings and potentates. Annual world sales were as high as 78,000 skins in 1900. But gradually the mountains of South America, where the chinchilla lived, were swept almost clean, and the fur fell from fash ion. In 1923, an Anaconda mining engineer named Mathias Chapman captured eleven of the remaining wild chinchillas, brought them from the Andes to Southern California in an ice-cooled crate. He started breeding them and founded the domestic chinchilla industry. From his original eleven animals sprang virtually all the estimated 250,000 chinchillas in the U.S. today...
...Billy Budd," written by Robert Chapman, instructor in English, and Louis Coxo, will get its first West Coast production this...
Last week DPA Boss Manly Fleischmann overruled them both. He told Chapman "to enter into a suitable long-term contract with the proposed new producer for power from the Hungry Horse project." Fleischmann said he approved the Anaconda-Harvey deal because the plan for an enlarged Air Force (143 wings) made the need for aluminum urgent, and the Anaconda plant should be producing at the rate of 72,000 tons a year by 1953, soon after the Hungry Horse Dam is fully completed. Feischmann could not see any threat of monopoly; the new plant, said he, would produce less than...