Word: sherwood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Want" all over again in book form. By last week, the jackpot began to turn out wooden nickels. Simon & Schuster, which had contracted to publish the book, dropped the project. Reason: three of Collier's star "correspondents" in the war-Playwright Robert E. Sherwood, CBS Commentator Edward R. Murrow and U.A.W. President Walter Reuther-had decided that they didn't want their articles reprinted...
...Sherwood, one of the top directors of U.S. psychological warfare in World War II, was aghast at the reaction that his lead article on the "history" of World War III stirred up in Washington. One State Department expert on Russia moaned that the Collier's issue might "wipe out all the good our propaganda may have accomplished in the past year" In Europe, non-Communist newspapers denounced Collier's for its "warmongering." Even the United Nations, in whose name Collier's fought the war, lodged an official protest against the magazine...
ROBERT E. SHERWOOD New York City...
...York Times, charging that she had been hounded to her grave by Red-baiters. Last week, Rice lashed out with another letter on the same theme. But this time he went further than angry words. He resigned from the Playwrights' TV Theater, a group of top dramatists (Robert Sherwood, Maxwell Anderson, Eugene O'Neill, et al.) whose works are being performed on, ABC-TV's Celanese Theater...
While at Harvard, Stagg concentrated in foreign languages and literatures and took several anthropology courses under Hooton, who was just beginning his teaching career. Stagg was a cartoonist for the Lampoon when Robert Sherwood and John Marquand were writing for it. He helped Sherwood produce a Pudding show, but the cast disbanded when the United States entered World War I, and there was no Pudding musical...