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They called themselves the Vicious Circle, and one day as they trooped out after lunch-Robert Sherwood, Dorothy Parker, George Kaufman, Bob Benchley, Heywood Broun and the rest-a pressagent paid them his passing respects. "There," said he, "goes the greatest collection of unsalable wit in America." Not too long after, most of them were naming their own prices...
Lewis handled the English language almost as clumsily as Theodore Dreiser, and with less force; he marshaled as many fascinating minor characters as Sherwood Anderson, but his understanding of them did not approach Anderson's awkward but subtle sympathy. Lewis was a good reporter, with an eye for detail. His mimicry of American speech was sometimes an inspired burlesque; his humor was usually broad enough for a Rotary luncheon...
Second Threshold (by Philip Barry, with revisions by Robert E. Sherwood) was left not quite finished at Playwright Barry's death a year ago. The play itself is overcast with thoughts of death. It portrays the soul sickness of a distinguished public figure who has paid too heavily, in inner hardness and human loss, for the world's prizes. Even between him and the daughter he loves there is a gulf, now widened by her engagement to another such aging man of distinction as himself. Numb and parched, Josiah Bolton (Clive Brook) casts about for an unobtrusive...
...doctor in the Massachusetts town of Canton was a young man of 29 with a brand-new wife, a brand-new medical degree, a friendly face, and not much more to recommend him. His first patient was the town treasurer, down with a nasty cold. Dr. Dean Sherwood Luce studied the case carefully, administered treatment and presented his bill...
Because his 45 years of service to his community is typical rather than unique, the American Medical Association convening in Cleveland last week gave Canton's Dr. Dean Sherwood Luce a gold medal and named him "Family Doctor of the Year...