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...served him longer (44 months) than any other member of the Cabinet, Harry Truman picked as Krug's successor a man who fitted an increasingly familiar pattern of presidential appointments. Like Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan (a fellow Coloradan) and Postmaster General Jesse Donaldson, 53-year-old Oscar Littleton Chapman was a longtime career man in his department...
When it comes to the left halfback position, Dartmouth had cause to complain, for Bob Tyler, Eddie Williams, and Chipper Chapman are all injured, the first two seriously. This leaves no one, but no one, to fill in, and consequently diminishes the left side running attack by an encouraging...
...Sarno reason to Tyler-ate speeding. We Bailey missed that Chapman. A Mueller horse should have Carey-d mo," quaked his assistant, Monahan-ds tremble, Murphy-t ache, Marriott pounds, and McCraney-um throbs--a Fitkin occur. It-Sar-della-brate plot--Bissell Kill...
During his three years on the loose in the neutral jungle, Chapman trained Chinese Communist guerrillas, lived and fought with them. He admired the rank & file fighters although, in a sense, he was their prisoner. No guerrilla band could make a move, nor its leaders a decision, without an O.K. from party headquarters. It took months for Chapman to get a suggestion to the party bigwigs and their reply; a good deal of the time was spent in enforced and irritating idleness. He was always admired but always a little suspect, and could not move from band to band without...
...Meat. Chapman was captured twice but escaped each time. His weight dropped from 170 Ibs. to 90. He learned to eat rat meat and think it tasty; once, he, even took in stride the information that he had just eaten roast Jap. He was frequently near death from malaria, and he left the jungle in August 1945, with a complexion the color of his jungle-green uniform. But before the month was over, he volunteered to go back on a military mission and was parachuted back into his "green hell" for another two months...