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Harper's was the first magazine to buy stories by Mark Twain and Sherwood Anderson; today, less literary than its friendly rival, the Atlantic, it is also more concerned with contemporary history. Allen frequently consults his good friend, the Atlantic's Editor Ted Weeks. Each regards his magazine as one of culture's last bastions against engulfing tides of vulgarity and mass thinking. Harper's, Allen says, is a forum for the "unorganized, unrecognized, unorthodox and unterrified," though it is rarely as bold as all that...
...many prominent churchmen that its 20,000-odd alumni (paraphrasing Ohio's claim as the "Mother of Presidents") proudly call their alma mater the "Mother of Bishops." Last week, for the first time in its 106 years, Ohio Wesleyan picked a layman president: U.S. Civil Service Commissioner Arthur Sherwood Flemming...
...After sorting through 40 crates of the late Harry Hopkins' papers, Author Robert E. Sherwood published the latest collection of recollections about Franklin D. Roosevelt. Items from the first installment (now running in Collier's):1) in 1939 Hopkins seriously considered himself a likely candidate for President and thought F.D.R. did, too; 2) Winston Churchill, admiring Hopkins' ability to get conferences down to brass tacks, called him "Lord Root of the Matter...
...graduates include 15 Forbeses, four Cabots, eight Coolidges, five Saltonstalls, nine Welds. Most Milton alumni go to Harvard, and State Street (Boston's Wall Street) is full of them. Besides the proper Bostonians, Milton's roster includes Poet T. S. Eliot, Playwright Robert E. Sherwood, Diplomat William Phillips, Dr. (and ex-All America) Barry Wood, Principal William G. Saltonstall of Exeter. The manufacturer of Thayer's Slippery Elm Lozenges, the designer of three America's Cup-winning yachts, and a British M.P. are all old Miltonians. On Admiral Byrd's first expedition an old Miltonian...
Left, by Minnie Dupree, curlylocked sweetheart of U.S. theatergoers in the '90s: $23,611- $20,000 of it to one Sherwood Macomber for "his love and loyalty...