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...Downright Unbearable." The daily critics, to a man, trounced Truckline. Said the Daily News's John Chapman: "The worst play I have seen since I have been in the reviewing business." Moaned the Sun's Ward Morehouse: "In its more pretentious interludes, it becomes downright unbearable...
...would dare to dispute the integrity of the President," Ickes retorted, "on any occasion that my country's welfare demanded it." At week's end it was over. Until Mr. Truman appointed a new Secretary (a matter already of much speculation), Ickes' assistant, Oscar L. Chapman, would hold down...
Peking Man-Sinanthropus pekinensis-was the paleontological sensation of the 1920s. To Paleontologist Roy Chapman Andrews, Peking Man "ranks as the most important discovery in the whole history of human evolution." His first traces-two teeth-were found in 1921 in a "dragon-bone" cave* at Choukoutien, 40 miles southwest of Peking. Digging continued through 1941 under a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. High point was the discovery of the first skull in 1929. Geological data indicated that Peking Man lived over 500,000 years ago, which would make him older than the Piltdown and Neanderthal Man and possibly...
...West" because two of its founders, Stephen Peet and Aaron Chapin, and its first two faculty members were all Yale men. Today it calls itself the oldest college in the Northwest,* and boasts of a top drawer anthropology department, with a $200,000 museum of its own (Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews is a Beloit graduate). One of Beloit's attractions for its students is its ability to hang on to some of the freshwater college atmosphere so dear to the scenarists who wrote Jack Oakie campus movies in the early...
...Chapman tells the story of Watts' five spiritual wives and an absurd legal union with an incipient genius, the girl model Ellen Terry, when he was a middleaged, lukewarm gentleman and she an actress with a vocation as irresistible as his own. On the only occasion on which Ellen mentioned it to me, she described how, when she was only Watts' model, she came home one day and informed her mother triumphantly that she was going to have a baby.. Watts had kissed her-and she was young enough to believe that babies were the result...