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...sets, and soon the face of Nina van Pallandt, Irving's elegant traveling companion in Mexico, blossoms on both screens. Edith leans forward to watch with aggressive intentness. "She's going to be on David Frost and David Susskind," someone says. Marmon: "Will she sing or talk?" Sher wood: "She'll sing. She can't talk. She's too stupid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Clifford Irvings at Play | 2/21/1972 | See Source »

...Mafia men are in trouble, the author contends, "help has a mysterious way of arriving in the nick of time." In the Franzese trial it came just before the judge's charge to the jury, in the form of a letter from a Sing Sing convict named Walter Sher. The letter claimed that one of Mosley's witnesses had admitted to Sher that he himself had killed The Hawk. In an emotional plea, Mosley argued that Sher was a psychopath, who had written the letter without even being asked, hoping to receive favors in prison from friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trials: The Prosecutor as Underdog | 9/5/1969 | See Source »

Accordingly, some 1962-63 shows have been holding their tryouts pretty far afield. The Perfect Set-Up, a comedy by Jack Sher about a Manhattan businessman whose wife and mistress are both contented girls, opens next month in Phoenix and will skip around among cities in the middle, mountain and far western states before opening on Broadway Oct. 24. All sorts of shows will be pussyfooting through the recently discovered Cleveland, Detroit, Toronto belt. Oliver!, English Composer-Lyricist Lionel Bart's musical based on Oliver Twist, has already begun its U.S. tryout in Los Angeles; it opens in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway: The New Season | 8/31/1962 | See Source »

Born in Lima, Ohio, raised on am bitions to sing or teach, Phyllis met Sher wood in 1938 at northwestern Ohio's Bluff ton College, and for 16 years the Dillers drifted from occupation to occupation, mainly in California. He worked for everyone from the U.S. Navy to Sears. Roebuck, while she wrote news paper society columns, did merchandising work in radio. On the side, she ran the children's choir at the Alameda Presbyterian Church (she had the kids sing through Campbell soup cans, amplifying their voices considerably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedians: Killer Diller | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

...Willie Mays finally decided that San Francisco is a good place to play baseball-but he doesn't want to live there. When the Giants moved to San Francisco after the 1957 season, Mays bought a $37,500 home in the all-white Sherwood Forest district. Almost no Sher wood Foresters came to be friendly toward Mays, his wife and their adopted son; many continued to snub them. This week the Mayses, having sold their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 6, 1960 | 6/6/1960 | See Source »

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