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...Rose Benét, Floyd Dell and Louis Bromfield found themselves at the same table. Yet of all the unusual happenings of an unusual gathering, perhaps the most appealing to the sense of incongruity was the meeting (they did not actually meet) of H. L. Mencken and Stuart Pratt Sherman. These pen-enemies were in the same room, guests of the same host. Within the space of ten minutes I had talked with them both and was struck with the fact that Mencken the writer corresponds to Sherman the man, and vice versa. Mencken has the almost perfect social sense...
Gentlemen: In speaking of the death of Alvin Sherman Wheaton, TIME, Dec. 29, 1924, p. 32, you say there are but two men living who witnessed the assassination of Lincoln. I saw it stated in Forbes Magazine that Robert Lincoln witnessed this event; and also the assassination of McKinley and Garfield. What are the facts...
...sort of volume you might make up unconsciously by rummaging during a month of evenings among the master tale-tellers in your library. The editors-Henry Wysham Lanier, of the Review of Reviews, assisted by Dr. William Lyon Phelps, high priest of letters at Yale University, Stuart P. Sherman, literary editor of the New York Herald-Tribune, John Cotton Dana, Newark librarian, and Professor-Emeritus Charles Mills Gayley of the University of California-had made a profuse but neat collection of tales, poems and tag-end tid-bits from great writers of all ages. Pages of parallel quotations were entitled...
...free to submit material for the prizes if they so desired. Under the rules laid down by the Jury of Award, firms represented on the jury may not submit material. The places of these two men were filled by Milton Towne of the Joseph Richards Company and George, Carter Sherman of the Sherman and Lebair Agency, both of New York...
Also Professor and Mrs. W. G. Howard, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Silz, Mr. F. R. Koelz, and Mr. H. W. Pfund of the Germanic Languages Department; Professor and Mrs. H. W. Smyth, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sherman, and Professor and Mrs. C. B. Gulick of the Classics Department: Professor and Mrs. W. R. Arnold, Professor and Mrs. D. G. Lyon, and Professor and Mrs. J. R. Jewett of the Somitic Languages Department; Mr. R. W. Goranson of the Mineralogy Department: and Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Zane and Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Mabady of the Library