Word: sherwood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Producer Wald (20th Century-Fox) is running up new box-office records with Peyton Place, has a dozen other books (from Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio to Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury) either almost in the can or getting ready for the cameras. When there are not enough books to his liking on the market, Wald invents some. For years he saved clippings on the subject of young college-grad career girls in the big city, finally talked to Simon and Schuster's late editor. Jack Goodman, who passed the tip on to a promising...
...long way to go to hold his own with U.S. prep schoolers. He was put through every textbook in the USIS language center, and when he was officially awarded the scholarship in April, he began taking special lessons with the wife of Consul General Henry H. Ford. Consul Robert Sherwood took him home to play with his two boys, aged 7 and 11. Soon Abdie replaced salaam with...
...Naked Earth (20th Century-Fox] may come as an unpleasant shock to Richard Todd fans. Actor Todd is well-known as the movie Robin Hood, romping boyishly about Sherwood Forest, bunging arrows at the Sheriff of Nottingham and dimpling at sight of Maid Marian. Now, all of a sudden, it turns out that he is shacked up with a Marseille whore in a thatched hut in Uganda...
Russia have agreed to make public their experiments with fusion for power. The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission released a 216-page book giving an excellent history of Project Sherwood, its fusion program. Papers presented at Geneva brought the account up to the minute...
...literature. Friend and editor of William Faulkner since Mosquitoes in 1927, Commins in recent years cleared working space for the Mississippian in his Manhattan office and Princeton home, provided the right kind of stimulation for the novelist's production of A Fable and The Town. Also editor of Sherwood Anderson, James Michener, Gertrude Stein, W. H. Auden, Robinson Jeffers, Budd Schulberg and Irwin Shaw, Commins long directed Random House's Modern Library series, also assembled the Selected Writings of Washington Irving (1945), Selected Writings of Robert Louis Stevenson (1947), Basic Writings of George Washington (1948), Major Campaign Speeches...