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Novelist's Poetry. Meredith's career was full of such prodigies of creation. He sometimes had two or three novels going at once, while he also read manuscripts for the publishing house of Chapman & Hall (he was their chief reader, and discovered Hardy), wrote poetry, and lived a reasonably full social life. His friends were critics and editors, poets like Swinburne, naval heroes like Admiral Frederick Maxse, or permanent officials in the Treasury, like Sir Alexander Duff Gordon. "Socially, they were swells; but they were unaffluent and unconventional swells...
...date from November 2, 1948. Republican moderates defeated the right wing in the GOP summer convention, most notably when Charles Halleck was rejected as the Vice-Presidential nominee. And although the Senate was in grave danger-according to pre-Tuesday views--Governor Dewey refused to support reactionary Senator Chapman Revercomb in the West Virginia race...
Besides these three coups, Democrats won all the races that were figured as "close." In Minnesota, Hubert Humphrey walloped Senator Joe Ball; Conservative Democrats Virgil Chapman and Guy Gillette defeated GOP incumbents in Kentucky and Iowa, respectively; and Robert Kerr easily out-distanced Ross Rizley in Oklahoma...
Matthew Necley, championed by John L. Lewis and unions in general, bad an easy evening piling up votes over West Virginia's arch-conservative Senator, Chapman Revercomb, who had been left to lurch for himself by Republican chieftains. Senator Robertson of Wyoming lost out to Democrat Lester Hunt, whose sprightly campaign--contrasted with the pedestrian tactics of his opponent--was typical of many of the Democratic victories...
Fast Friends. In Pasadena, Calif., when Robert Dwyer and Robert Chapman rushed happily to greet each other after a long parting, Dwyer broke his leg, Chapman cracked his" skull...