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Robert B. Sherwood '43 and William W. Pinney '43, heads of the Phillips Brooks Freshman Dance Committee sponsoring the affair, yesterday announced that it would be held in the Union on that Saturday afternoon from 4 to 7 o'clock...
...small Midwest town of the buggy days has long awaited a novelist who could see it steadily and whole. Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, for all its savor, its dusty truth, was only a bucketful of that subject. Authentic handfuls may be found in Booth Tarkington, Willa Gather, Edgar Lee Masters. Kings Row, an intelligent attempt to cover the whole ground, is worthy of respect and worth reading, but it is not the hoped-for article...
...seventieth anniversary dinner of the Signet Society held Saturday night the Signet Medal for Achievement awarded annually was given to Robert E. Sherwood '18, playwright, and the Signet Medal was given to the Elizabethan Club of Yale, honorary guests at the dinner...
...speakers included President Lowell, '77, George Lyman Kittredge, '82, Gurney Professor of English Literature emeritus, Stephen Vincent Benet, poet, Edward Ballantine, '07, associate professor of Music, musician, Robert E. Sherwood '18, Wilmarth Lewis, Blaiv Clark '40, President of the Signet, and MacGeorge Bundy '40, Secretary of the Elizabethan Club...
...public insists on being kept fully informed"). In all, it is a cast that makes the most of many excellently written scenes, and never really lets the audience down. It has been said that the American stage is incapable of producing a good play about a contemporary dictatorship. Mr. Sherwood has done it; in achieving his success he has looked at tyranny from the north side of the Mannerheim Line, and to find its victims has trepanned the human skull and poked around in the gray matter inside...