Word: sherwood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Josephine (Sherwood) Hull, 71, dumpling-shaped character actress (Arsenic and Old Lace, Harvey, The Solid Gold Cadillac) who modestly tapped fame at 55 ("I'm short and fat and funny, you know, and not easy to fit into a play"); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan...
...regular run of House dances is supplemented by frequent mixers, notably one with Wellesley early in the fall, general outings, and this year a splash party in the I.A.B. Throughout the year, special House dinners are often arranged followed by such speakers as U.S. Senator Leverett Saltonstall, Robert E. Sherwood and Joseph Alsop in recent years. This year, Senator John F. Kennedy, an ex-Winthrop House member, will speak at the Senior Dinner...
...awful lot of mail from women like me," says Torch Singer Roberta Sherwood. "That is, from the women with a middle-aged spread. A lot of them had ambitions that were never realized, and I guess I look as if I am realizin' them." Thus, after bowing demurely to an ovation at Manhattan's Copacabana, Singer Sherwood explained the infectious appeal that in the last year has turned her, at 43, into the nation's biggest new nightclub...
...from Kiwanis. St. Louis-born Roberta Sherwood's career has a strong flavor of soap opera. Roberta's father ran an oldtime touring minstrel show ("He was a real raggledaggle show-business type"), and by the time she was in her early teens, she was out of school and in a song and dance act. Finally she married a sometime actor named Don Lanning, settled down with him in Miami, operating a restaurant. When her husband fell ill of cancer in 1953 and lost his bar concession, Roberta found herself with three boys on her hands...
...more than its share of a nation's major literary figures, in both critical and imaginative writing. In this century the University has left its mark on Conrad Aiken, Robert Benchley, e.e.cummings, John Dos Passos, T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, John Marquand, Eugene O'Neill, Edward Arlington Robinson, Robert Sherwood, Wallace Stevens, and Thomas Wolfe, to name an even dozen. While this may be due to the undeniable attraction of a Harvard diploma for the talented, an examination of specific cases indicates that the University did not pass these...