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...London, half a dozen able staffers-most of them stout Socialists-have also quit, as fed up as Editor Chapman. Said Gordon Boshell, who had been hired to pep up the Herald's dreary feature page but left to freelance: "The paper doesn't want zip and it doesn't want brains. As a result, it's a dreadful hodgepodge of the mediocre...
...Herald really doing that? Last week, while staffers were at work on their birthday special, 48-year-old Herald Managing Editor Brian Chapman gave his own answer: he quit. Chapman, a regular Socialist and a good newsman who had come over from Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express, was fed up with the Herald's failure to keep its readers informed on the problems of the day. He had been forced to cut down on the paper's foreign and cultural coverage and its play of international news while devoting up to one-third of its space...
...Dreadful Hodgepodge." The first blow fell on Newsman Chapman a year ago when the job of foreign editor was abolished. Last summer, the Herald achieved the doubtful honor of being the only big British daily without a correspondent in Korea. (To cover the Far East, the Herald has one string correspondent in Tokyo.) In Europe, the Herald recently dropped its oldtime Central European expert, G.E.R. Gedye, closed up its bureaus in Paris and Berlin. Fleet Street gossiped that the paper would soon abolish its only remaining overseas bureau, in Washington...
Lecturer Robert Chapman's Billy Budd keeps getting last minute extensions of its life at the Biltmore on 47th. Dennis King stars in the Herman Melville tale. Tennessee Williams is trying to maintain his lofty reputation with The Rose Tattoo at the Martin Beck on 45th; some like it very much, but all agree it is not his beat...
...appointment which came as something of a disappointment to another Kentucky politico. The day of Chapman's death, Baseball Commissioner A. B. ("Happy") Chandler, scheduled to lose his job next year, put in a hurry-up call to the governor's office. The-governor said he was sorry but he had already picked his pinch-hitter...