Word: mason
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...WORLDS OF ROBERT E. SHERWOOD, Mirror to His Times by John Mason Brown. 409 pages. Harper...
During the next 25 years, Robert Emmet Sherwood became successively a well-known movie and book reviewer, magazine editor, script doctor, playwright (Idiot's Delight, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, There Shall Be No Night) and speechwriter to President Roosevelt. In this effusive biography, Critic John Mason Brown leans heavily on the lighter side. The reader hears all about Sherwood's sensational buck and wing, his low-keyed Algonquin witticisms, his red-eyed passion for high-stakes poker, model airplanes, and croquet in Central Park at $10 a wicket. Unhappily, Biographer Brown requires 386 pages to take his subject...
...Minnesota Vikings, darlings of Sports Illustrated, will rise no higher than third. Fran Tarkenton, Bill Brown, and Tommy Mason have fooled more sports-writers per pound than any other players in the league. The Vikings lack deep pass receiving threats, and fine defenders such as Carl Eiler and Rip Hawkins play along with nonentities like Bill Jobko and Larry Vargo...
...Charles A. Coolidge, Fellows of Harvard College, and Paul Cabot, the University Treasurer. The other important ad hoc group was an Advisory Committee of the Faculty appointed by Buck in early February. Members of this committee were: Buck, who acted as chairman; George Baker, professor of Business Administration; Mason Hammond, Pope Professor of Latin Language and Literature; Erwin Griswold, Dean of the Law School; and Edward Purcell, professor of Physics...
Where do American TV shows go after the networks are through with them? One popular retirement resort is London, where the British Broadcasting Corp. is an eager client of last year's Perry Mason and Independent Television pays top prices for such rejects as The Reporter−which wasso bad, even by the indifferent standards of U.S. audiences, that CBS dropped it in mid-series. American shows are so popular in Britain that ITV has always given them the choicest hours of its prime evening time...