Word: shermanism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strom Thurmond's Southern politics was bred in his bones. His grandfather, George Washington Thurmond, a corporal with Lee, had trudged home from Appomattox to find Columbia in the ruins left by Sherman's march. Eighty-four of Columbia's 124 blocks had been gutted by fire. Some 1,400 buildings had been destroyed...
Professor Theodore Morrison '23 at Harvard and Dean Mildred P. Sherman at the Annex told the lucky few at both colleges yesterday. Though more than half of each Freshmen class turned in essays after the one-hour exam, only a handful of the eligibles got the green light to go on to advanced English courses...
Town House (adapted from John Cheever's stories by Gertrude Tonkonogy; produced by Max Gordon) is one more comedy about the housing shortage-and on the whole, one too many. Despite George S. Kaufman's brisk direction and amusing performances by Mary Wickes and Hiram Sherman, it is much oftener forced than funny, and the more the playwrighting falters, the lower the playwright stoops...
Shelley was born in East St. Louis, Ill., went through Thomas Jefferson High School in Brooklyn, modeled in Manhattan's garment district, had a fling at musi-comedy and horse operas. In Larceny, she worked with a young director (George Sherman) and two writers fresh from radio (Herbert Margolis and Louis Morheim) who let her try Tory her own way. She gave it a strong blend of sex, humor, loneliness and desperation. A fair percentage of males in any audience might be scared of Tory, but few would run away...
...Dean Sherman shares hostess duties tomorrow with Mrs. Ruth Crawford, Smith College director of admissions...