Word: sherwood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ROBERT E. SHERWOOD: A COLLEAGUE'S EULOGY
...which we may indeed lead to something but may never, any one of us, be anything permanent. If we are to choose out of the men we thought worthy to survive beyond their times, our lists would be brief and they would not be the same, but Robert Sherwood would stand high in the balloting...
...that seemed to gather slowly like a storm and flash with its lightning, these are still strongly with us, and there is none among us that doesn't have a sentence or phrase or episode etched on his cortex to remind him of what manner of man Sherwood was. No stranger could ever encounter Bob without becoming aware that he was in the presence of a formidable brain and personality. No friend of Bob's ever found him lacking in warmth, sympathy or time when there were troubles to be met. Though he was no opportunist, though...
...American theater the death of Sherwood has an effect comparable to the removal of a major planet from a solar system. Nothing will be the same for any of us, near or far, from now on. There is no disguising that the death of Robert Sherwood is a heavy misfortune for us and for our times. We wish the dice could have fallen the other way. It was a better world when we had him with...
Died. Robert Emmet Sherwood, 59, Pulitzer Prizewinning playwright (Idiot's Delight, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, There Shall Be No Night), historian (Roosevelt and Hopkins), top cinema writer (The Best Years of Our Lives), ghostwriter (1940-45) of some portion of every major Franklin D. Roosevelt speech-of a heart attack; in Manhattan...