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Author Roosevelt's memoir has little of the high historic excitement of Robert Sherwood's Roosevelt and Hopkins and none of the hero-worshiping quality of Grace Tully's F.D.R., My Boss; she just runs along easily as though she were showing the family album to some old friends. Yet every few pages she comes to a striking, familiar snapshot of the great ones among whom she and her husband moved. Random shots...
...another thing, none of the stories is really more than the literary prospectus of a story situation. Characters are in the same place at the end as at the beginning, and they have been stuck there all along. Robert Sherwood's "One Man's Sorrow," is particularly static...
...those of the present. Many dates, names and places will mean little then, and many historical events nothing. This biographer of the future in the present rambles and rapturizes, leaves out everything a contemporary would regard as essential information and is, by current standards, as dull as Historian Robert Sherwood might have seemed to Suetonius...
...Though Lautrec had made Broadway. Dancers in the "Only for Americans" number from the current Sherwood-Berlin musical, Miss Liberty, all sport copies of gowns worn by the stars of the Paris music halls, as shown in Lautrec's posters and other lithographs...
...recall to any who take seriously your judgements of other publications, and to your reviewer himself, Robert Sherwood's recent lecture here, "After the Lampoon. What?" in which he gave his opinion that the magazine was of late at a high point in its course? A lone voice who will admittedly be shouted down by your chorus of magnanimous reviewers. J. Train '50, Harvard Lampoon