Word: sherwood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...start. During our undergraduate time in Harvard we never stopped. We put on three full shows of which the biggest hit was "Barnum Was Right." We also wrote and published several songs that were not included in our college productions. Our first Hasty Pudding show didn't carry Sherwood's name, since he didn't make the club until the following year; it was the rule to produce only the efforts of members. But he broke the rules with anonymity...
...became music publishers and opened a shop in Harvard Square in a building where the rentals were low. We called the new firm "Sherry and Powers" and confidently expected we would put Witmark and New York's Tin-pan Alley out of business. The Sherry stood for Sherwood and the Powers was my middle name. Sherwood had one battered roll-top desk and I had the piano. To give the office a proper professional atmosphere, we evolved imitation montages of celebrity photographs and framed them to impress any stray visitors...
...Over Sherwood's desk the group photographs were of Shakespeare, Dante, Goethe, Keats, Byron, Shelly, Longfellow, Gilbert, Tennyson, Poe and others, but right in the center was an enlarged picture of Robert Emmet Sherwood that nobody could possibly overlook. Above my piano I had an equally large picture of music publisher Powers, surrounded by photographs and prints of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Sullivan, Wagner, Bizet, Liszt and others. Sherry and Powers associated only with the best. Nights when our shows were produced we would get over to the "Pudding Theatre" ahead of time and see that the folders holding the scores...
...Sherwood and the Republicans...
...Sherwood was a devout Republican, at least, while in college. In the 1916 election, he went all out for Hughes. On election night, he was so restless that he insisted on having several of us go into Boston to get the latest returns. The first returns assured Hughes of election, and when the bulletin board of the Boston Herald gave out what it thought was the result, Sherwood immediately organized a parade of victory. As the tallest man in Harvard, he became the leader. I can still see him, waving his long arms, shouting some doggerel that he may have...