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...compelling lure of Disney's children's TV shows-which get paid $10 million a year for advertising Disneyland and forthcoming Disney movies. Said one parent: "Disneyland may be just another damned amusement park, but to my kids it is the Taj Mahal, Niagara Falls, Sherwood Forest and Davy Crockett all rolled into one. After years of sitting in front of a television set, the youngsters are sure it's a fairyland before they ever get here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: How to Make a Buck | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

...thick at the jaw, but he still exudes boyishness, whether socking home Yankee Doodle Dandy in strutting, arm-pumping style, or getting moist-eyed over the last exits of Cohan's vaudeville teammates-his mother, father and sister. As the other three of the Four Cohans, Roberta Sherwood, James Dunn and Gloria De Haven seemed just right, and Singer-Dancer June Havoc also shone in a production well cast right down to the sponsor-Swift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

...book is designed to make it plain that, without Alan Brooke, Winnie would certainly have gone off the rails with catastrophic frequency. Most of Bryant's story will be old hat to those who have read Churchill's history. Eisenhower's Crusade in Europe and Robert Sherwood's Roosevelt and Hopkins. What gives it immediacy and historical stature is the day-by-day evidence of the reticent professional soldier who made his plan, stuck to it throughout and often persuaded seemingly stronger men that he was right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Bird Watcher As Hero | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

...educational teaching of theatre. "It is safe to say," he insisted, "that the first impulse of the great expansion of teaching of theatre in the last thirty years came from Baker at Harvard." Among the prominent playwrights who studied under Baker were Eugene O'Neill and Robert Sherwood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Macgowan Urges Major In Theatre Arts Field | 4/16/1957 | See Source »

...Pete's sake, why does everybody have to refer to fortyish Torch Singer Roberta Sherwood as "middle-aged"? Speaking for myself and all us girls in this interesting age bracket, my spread has not changed status one bit in the last 20 years; furthermore, I am not now and never will be middleaged. CONSTANCE SANDERSON Brockton, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 8, 1957 | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

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