Word: sherwood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gave Anthony a bigger idea: Why not devote an issue to a third world war? Ryan went secretly to work (only a few Collier's staffers knew what was going on), traveling to Europe and around the U.S., collecting material, lining up writers. Pulitzer Prizewinner Robert E. Sherwood wrote the lead piece on history's "most unnecessary, most senseless and deadliest" war. The A.P.'s Hal Boyle reported the Russian A-bombing of Washington (which had "destroyed the heart of the city"), Edward R. Murrow, the A-bombing of Moscow. Lowell Thomas watched U.N. paratroopers "chute into...
...Producer Stanley Kramer, who had become one of Mrs. Roosevelt's favorites with movies like The Men and Cyrano de Bergerac. When production begins in another two years or so, Mrs. Roosevelt will advise on the screen play and share in the proceeds. Likeliest scripter: Roosevelt Biographer Robert Sherwood...
...writing is part of the American tradition of mooning, the tradition represented by Sherwood Anderson, Thomas Wolfe, Eugene O'Neill sometimes, and, at his rare best, William Saroyan. She can be soft and soupy, but at top form, as in The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, Carson McCullers has sharp sight, warm tenderness...
...seniors are: Stanton A. Cook, Charles F. Gallagher, William R., Sherwood, and Franklin C. Southworth...
...members of that organization, if no one else. The rest of the prose works fall really flat, especially a drawn-out parody by Nathaniel Benchley '38 of the Etruscan equivalent of Boston's Watch and Ward Society. Even such greats as F. van Wyck Mason '24 and Robert E. Sherwood '18 are not up to what presumably is their best...