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Since then, the HDC has developed as a theatrical group, and such well known directors, actors, and writers as Gilbert Seldes '14, Robert Benchley '12, and Robert E. Sherwood '17 have been associated with...
Bluestone presented a selection from Richard Wright's "Native Son," in which Mr. Max attacks the cruelty of the white race which has forced Thomas into committing a murder. Sparer took excerpts from the Douglas speech in the Lincoln-Douglas Debate from Robert Sherwood's play "Abe Lincoln in Illinois." Lincoln's speech in the debate was given by MacNutt, who followed Sparer on the stage...
...pound class: Dwyer defeated Sherwood; O'Keefe defeated Hagee; Weiss defeated Butler; Vera defeated Smith...
...publishing books was to take a chance. More than one important U.S. novelist brought his publisher nothing but deficits with his first and second books (among others: Sherwood Anderson's Windy McPherson's Son, Ernest Hemingway's In Our Time). Wouldn't it be wonderful, though, if you didn't have to take such chances? That was the line a man named Albert E. Sindlinger peddled to publishers. He had been a vice president of the Gallup poll organization and he thought he knew a little something about what the public wants. Every book...
...chain reaction that led to such drollery started in 1876, when, according to the chroniclers, Ralph Curtis '76, "celebrated for his skill at caricature," Samuel Sherwood '76, "a clever draughtsman," and Arthur Sherwood '77, "the life of every party which he joined," put their moustaches together in a back room of Matthews Hall and founded "The Harvard Lampoon, or Cambridge Charivari Illustrated, Humorous, Etc." One of the earliest issues--a collector's item if that's your idea of a good time--carried, in addition to advertisements for "Silk Smoking Caps, Japanese" and "Brier-wood and Meershaum Pipes, Gambier Bowls...