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...Sherwood, Robert Breckenridge '43, Manager
...Bain, Sherwood Estes...
...SHERWOOD ANDERSON'S MEMOIRS-Harcourt, Brace...
...peculiar and important thing about this new, and conspicuously informal, American classic is that it belongs far less to the literate reader than to those who read so little that talk can still mean more to them than print-provided it be plain and friendly, sensible talking. For Sherwood Anderson's life story has many things in common with their own, and so has his way of telling...
...mother, in her girlhood, was bonded-out to an Ohio farmer. Sherwood and his sister and his brothers were deeply poor children of an irresponsible father. In his early 20s he enlisted and served a tame, funny, delightfully told few weeks in the Spanish-American War. In his hunger for money, he also developed an Alger-boy slickness which he was later to regret; worked at odd-jobs, with race horses, in factories, writing advertising copy; became at length a paint manufacturer and the respectable head of a respectable family...