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Chapman Shares Limelight in New York Drama Crities Poll

Instructor in English Robert Chapman and Louis O. Coxe, co-authors of "Billy Budd," share top honors in Variety's poll of New York drama critics for "most promising new playwright of the 1950-51 season."

The collaborators received three votes out of a total of nine. The runner up in the poll, which Variety conducts every year, was Wolcott Gibbs, author of "Season in the Sun." Gibbs received two votes.

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