Word: sherwood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...television has always been that the networks not only sell commercial spots to their sponsors but often let the advertisers control the programs as well. This week NBC made a major move to reverse the trend. It signed an unprecedented contract with Pulitzer Prize-Winning Dramatist & Biographer Robert Sherwood (Idiot's Delight, Roosevelt and Hopkins], guaranteeing him more than $100,000 for a series of nine original hour-long TV plays to be written during the next three years. An even more important and unusual stipulation: Sherwood may write about any subject he chooses (except religious controversy...
...contract grew out of a lunch with RCA President Frank Folsom at which Sherwood complained that radio & TV were the only mediums in which writers have no contact with the heads of the industry. Folsom announced that NBC was happy "to grant the artistic freedom which all fine authors require to create great works of art." Says Sherwood, with satisfaction: "Under the contract, the question of quality is left entirely to me. They can't say that the boy has to get the girl." His only worry: "If I write nine stinkers, it's going to be pretty...
Illinois. Republican William G. Stratton, 38, defeated Adlai Stevenson's lieutenant governor, Sherwood Dixon, by at least 175,000 votes. Dixon took an early lead, but could not hold...
...campaign, Stevenson flew off to the prison to watch, pale and tired, as armed state troopers routed out 300 rebellious prisoners who had barricaded themselves in a cell block. Governor Stevenson, who got to the scene in time to go over the plan of action with Lieutenant Governor Sherwood Dixon and other state officials, was off again within a few hours to resume the campaign...
...Governor: Though most Democratic leaders would have preferred Secretary of State Edward J. Barrett, a noted vote-getter, at Adlai Stevenson's insistence they gave the gubernatorial nomination to bulky, 56-year-old Lieut. Governor Sherwood Dixon. Many Democratic leaders are still openly unhappy about