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...hatters, who consider twelve hats exactly the right number for the well-dressed man, picked the U. S.'s twelve best-hatted* men: Marshall Field III, Jack Dempsey, Herbert Bayard Swope, Adolphus Busch III, Grover Aloysius Whalen, Robert Cobb, Frank Michler Chapman Jr., William Gaxton, Bing Crosby, Tyrone Power Jr., Fred Astaire, James Melton...
When, at 22, Frank Michler Chapman got to be head of his bank department, he resigned. Banks were all right, but he liked birds better. In 1888 he went to work in Manhattan's American Museum. For the past 25 years he has been the Museum's curator-in-chief of birds. He has done as much as any man living to teach his countrymen to know and love birds. He originated the Museum's brilliantly realistic habitat groups; founded a magazine Bird-Lore; lectured widely; composed standard guides and handbooks for amateurs...
...high fox-proof fences. There he feeds his ducks twice a day, many of them eating from his hand. All are wild ducks, free to come & go as they please, but at Fallodon they have become tame. There are some 200 ducks of 20-odd species. Says Frank Michler Chapman, curator of birds at the American Museum of Natural History, in an introduction to Lord Grey's article...
Married. Gladys Swarthout, lissom Metropolitan Opera contralto specializing in boys' roles; and Frank Michler Chapman Jr., concert baritone, son of the famed ornithologist, first husband of Funnyman Irvin S. Cobb's literary daughter Elisabeth ("Buffy") Cobb Brody...
...Senator Walcott of Connecticut, the Committee's chairman, is himself a keen gunner and fisherman. With his two sons and four setters he shoots the fat quail of Virginia and South Carolina when he can get away from Washington. With Lord William Percy of England and Dr. Frank Michler Chapman of the American Museum of Natural History, he has studied birds in South America. As president of the Connecticut State Board of Fisheries & Game and of a joint commission on Forests & Wild Life, he helped develop his own State's efficient conservation policy. In a report...