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Chapman, John (Arthur)

Chapman, John [Arthur] (1900–72), critic. Born in Denver, the son of journalists, he studied at the University of Colorado and at Columbia. Chapman began his newspaper career in 1917 on the Denver Times and joined the New York Daily News in 1920, becoming its drama editor in 1929 and its drama critic in 1943, a post he held until his retirement. He also served as Burns Mantle's assistant on the Best Plays and after Mantle's death edited the series from 1947 to 1952. Thereafter for many years he edited a less‐successful series.

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University of Denver

University of Denver at Denver; coeducational; United Methodist; chartered 1864 and opened as Colorado Seminary by John Evans and others. In 1880 it was reorganized as the Univ. of Denver. It maintains Chamberlin Observatory and, in cooperation with other institutions, high-altitude laboratories at Echo Lake and at Mt. Evans. There are centers for international education, Judaic studies, and Latin American studies.

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