Word: sherwood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this time, I was nearly as excited as Sherwood. "What is the name of it?" I asked...
...finally got the attention of the head waiter and when Sherwood explained to him that a valuable, original manuscript had probably been left in a taxi, the waiter said, in a very calm voice: "I wouldn't worry, sir. Nobody ever loses anything in a London taxicab." He was right. The script was back at Sherwood's hotel, the following morning...
...demanding payment for two suits, made by one of the college tailors. He turned the letter over to me. I had just started law school but I knew the answer to that one. I immediately sent the agency a hot letter calling their attention to the chronological fact that Sherwood was under 21 when he had purchased the clothes. Consequently the bill was uncollectable by law. At once, I was hit with a letter from the agency calling my special attention to an item for $40, with interest, owed by me for purchases at one of Harvard Square's leading...
...Sherwood's carelessness in some matters seemed never to desert him. I remember being in London a few years after he soared into the upper reaches of the theeatre, He was also there on business. I was stopping at the Mayfair and called him at his hotel and asked him if he could drop around for a nostalgic chat. He said: 'be right over, Sam.' As he knew the logical place to find me, I went down to the bar and he soon burst in and went into the usual back-slapping and greetings. We finally eased ourselves over...
...Missing?" he shouted back at me. "Only the manuscript of my latest play. That's all. The best that Sherwood ever wrote, if you really want to know." He stood up and glared down at me. "And I might add, just for the record," he moaned, "that there isn't another script, anywhere...