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When Chanler Armstrong Chapman went to St. Paul's School in 1915, he had a family reputation to live down. His father (Literary Critic John Jay Chapman) had attended that haughty, Episcopalian institution during the reign of "the First Man of God"-the late, great Headmaster Henry Augustus Coit-and had been expelled because he went too far even for pious St. Paul's: in the midst of a cricket game he suddenly knelt and prayed in front of the wicket. Chanler never was expelled, but his conduct at St. Paul's was, if anything, worse than...
Renouncing her foreign title, Princess Natalie Paley, daughter of the late Grand Duke Paul of Russia, ex-wife of Parisian Couturier Lucien Lelong, wife of Noel Coward's business manager, John Chapman Wilson, took out first papers for U. S. citizenship. White-haired, U. S.-born Lady Ribblesdale, 70, ex-wife of Colonel John Jacob Astor, mother of Vincent Astor, grande dame of international society, renounced her title, once more became a citizen of her native...
Completing the exhibit from Harvard's own collection are the original drafts of E. A. Robinson's "Merlin," of "The Hamlet of Archibald MacLeish," by MacLeish, and of "The Eve of St. Agnes" and "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer," by Keats...
Trouble indeed ensued at an ATS dance last week in Catterick, Yorkshire. When an outside sentry gave the blackout midnight challenge and received no reply, he fired a shot through the dance-room window. The bullet smashed a bottle on the bar, gravely wounded one Signalman Chapman...
Artic Shaw was injured late today at Acapulco, Mexico while rescuing a drowning American woman. Miss Anne Chapman of Greenwich Connecticut was being carried out by the strong undertow when Shaw swam out to bring her in. Just before reaching shore he was dashed against some rocks, severely injuring his knees. Shaw was taken to Mexico City for treatment and will be flown to Los Angeles for further examination...