Word: sherwood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Second Threshold (by Philip Barry, with revisions by Robert E. Sherwood) was left not quite finished at Playwright Barry's death a year ago. The play itself is overcast with thoughts of death. It portrays the soul sickness of a distinguished public figure who has paid too heavily, in inner hardness and human loss, for the world's prizes. Even between him and the daughter he loves there is a gulf, now widened by her engagement to another such aging man of distinction as himself. Numb and parched, Josiah Bolton (Clive Brook) casts about for an unobtrusive...
...doctor in the Massachusetts town of Canton was a young man of 29 with a brand-new wife, a brand-new medical degree, a friendly face, and not much more to recommend him. His first patient was the town treasurer, down with a nasty cold. Dr. Dean Sherwood Luce studied the case carefully, administered treatment and presented his bill...
Because his 45 years of service to his community is typical rather than unique, the American Medical Association convening in Cleveland last week gave Canton's Dr. Dean Sherwood Luce a gold medal and named him "Family Doctor of the Year...
Immediately the twelve charter members were rounded up. Besides Coburn, Anderson, and Rosane, Frank Parson, Archy Spencer, Tom Sherwood, Red Ekinner, Sid Clark, Phil Clark, Rollie Algrant, Nick Arundel, and Dalt Griffith made up the Association. When Algrant graduated Phil Scullin took his place in the group, since formed as a club of twelve...
...Broadway theater, a fabulous invalid that lingers on & on, was about to get another shot in the arm. Last week Playwright-Biographer Robert (Idiot's Delight; Roosevelt and Hopkins) Sherwood announced that he had accepted the chairmanship of a new Council of the Living Theater. The plan is to launch "a nationwide campaign of education ... to arouse in more people a keener appreciation and zest for the whole theatrical experience as opposed to the frantic and transient interest in hit shows alone...