Word: sherwood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sears related the following incidents from his long friendship with Robert E. Sherwood '18, who died last November, to William H. McMasters for publication in the CRIMSON. Mr. Sears, a Boston attorney, has been President of the Massachusetts Bar Association for three terms. In 1954 he also served briefly as special counsel for the Senate Investigating Committee...
...first met Robert Sherwood at Milton Academy where we were preparing for Harvard . . . Our collaboration in college came about by accident. I was banging out a melody at the piano, one afternoon, when Sherwood dropped in. He listened for a few minutes and I turned to him and said, "All I need is a lyric." Without so much as a flicker, he grabbed some paper and began drafting the rhythm on which to base his lines. I have heard of rapid composers but I doubt if any other American lyricist could equal the speed of Sherwood, or, for that matter...
...Liebman Presents (Sat. 9 p.m., NBC). Paris in the Springtime, with Dan Dailey, Gale Sherwood, Helen Gallagher...
...will rush to pay for them. To prove that they are at least surveying the road to this promised land, the networks every now and then hire a well-known litterateur to act as intellectual trailblazer. Three years ago, NBC joyfully announced the hiring of Pulitzer Prizewinning Dramatist Robert Sherwood. Nothing much came of it. Last week CBS hired another Pulitzer Prizewinner, Dramatist Sidney (Men in White, Detective Story) Kingsley, to be its resident cultural genius...
...third Pulitzer Prizewinner to die within seven days. The others: Robert Emmet Sherwood (see JUDGMENTS & PROPHECIES), Bernard DeVoto (see EDUCATION...