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...general tone in the theater was gay: still screening rather than mirroring the war, Broadway clicked with only one world-minded play, A Bell for Adano. One possible reason was the silence of the better serious dramatists-Robert E. Sherwood, Lillian Hellman, Maxwell Anderson, S. N. Behrman, Clifford Odets, Elmer Rice. There was no good melodrama, either...
Right-Hand Men. With Harry Truman in the White House, there would be no room for Franklin Roosevelt's "anonymous" assistants, nor for the advice and influence of Harry Hopkins, Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, ex-OPAdministrator Leon Henderson, Playwright Robert E. Sherwood, Judge Sam Rosenman, and others of the inner New Deal circle...
Robert Emmet Sherwood, moose-tall (6 ft. 7 in.) playwright (Idiot's Delight, etc.), more recently a Government employe (OWI and ghost writing for Franklin Roosevelt), returned from a seven-weeks look at the Pacific war for the Navy to explain why he is going back to playwriting : "After five years or more in public service, I'd like to start making a little money...
...announce returns. Secretary Grace Tully and Mrs. Ruth Rumelt, Steve Early's secretary, moved in & out with flashes from A.P. and U.P. tickers. Around the big-table, individual state scores were kept by the President's intimates: Henry Morgenthau, Admiral Leahy, Steve Early, Samuel Rosenman, Robert Sherwood. As "managing editor," the President assembled the totals...
...Those Worn-Out Crackpots." Next day, as the special train crossed Ohio and Indiana. Franklin Roosevelt and his advisers (Judge Sam Rosenman, Playwright Robert Sherwood) worked hard to trim the big Chicago speech from 9,000 to 3,000 words. At Fort Wayne, there was an interruption: the President left the train for a specially built platform, standing high over a square where a crowd of 24,000 was gathered. The President, who knew that many wanted to reassure themselves about his health, said: "I am in the middle of a war, and so are you. . . . It is quite...