Word: sheldon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when we showed up at the office." The fear was justified: the ailing News (circ. 188,453) was losing between $75,000 and $80,000 a month. News Publisher Robert Smith thought he had found a way out of his trouble when erratic Coos Bay (Ore.) Times Publisher Sheldon F. Sackett put down a $20,000 deposit to buy the News and signed a contract to pay $1,525,000 for it. But Smith was forced to call off the deal when, as Smith said, Sackett "failed to put up financial and collateral requirements" (TIME, Nov. 23). Last week, with...
...were all students of Baker's; most of them were members of the famed Baker's Dozen which met at his house to discuss the drama over an Edam cheese. It was the need for an organization to produce the plays written for Baker's courses which inspired Edward Sheldon '08 and Edward Eyre Hunt '08 to found...
While Massachusetts Hall throbbed with activity--like "Berhhardt's heart beating in Priscilla's body" as John Mason Brown described it--people on the outside began to take notice of the productions. Even before the Workshop began Edward Sheldon's play, Salvation Neil, written while Sheldon was still an undergraduate in Baker's course, was discovered by the great American actress Mrs. Minnie Maddern Fiske and with her interpretation enjoyed a considerable run on Broadway. Soon after, with the founding of the HDC and its presentation of several plays written for Baker's courses, a number of Boston producers became...
...American stage in the 1920's and '30's was if not dominated then certainly permeated by Harvard graduates. A partial list of the best known include playwrights Owen Davis '94, Percy McKaye '97, Hermann Hagerdorn '07, Edward Sheldon '03, Sidney Howard, Sp '14-'15, Eugene O'Neill, Sp '14-'15, S. N. Behrman '16, Robert E. Sherwood '18, Philip Barry Gr '19-'20; critics H. T. Parker '90, Van Wyck Brooks '08, Heywood Broun '10, Kenneth Macgowan '11, Robert Benchley '12, Brooks Atkinson '18 and John Mason Brown '23; designers Lee Simonson '09, Robert Edmund Junes '10 and Donald...
...contract to sell the paper for $1,525,000 (TIME, Nov. 16), Smith changed his mind. "There is nothing wrong with the Daily News," said he, "that more circulation would not cure." Then he announced that the sale of the paper was called off because the buyer, Publisher Sheldon F. Sackett of the Coos Bay (Ore.) Times, had "failed to put up financial and collateral requirements as specified...