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Lean, sad Director Clair made his first English picture with Grade A Playwright Robert Sherwood. It was The Ghost Goes West, a satiric fantasy about an amorous Scottish shade, and it was a ten-strike (TIME, Jan. 20, 1936). But The Flame of New Orleans, scripted by Norman Krasna (Bachelor Mother), is no equal of The Ghost. Occasional touches-word of La Dietrich's honky-tonk past conveyed from ear to ear at her introduction to New Orleans' society, a wedding gown floating mysteriously down the Mississippi, shutters opening drowsily on the quay at dawn-give proof that...
Awarded. The 1941 Pulitzer Prizes in letters and journalism, to: Playwright Robert E. Sherwood, for his wartime Broadway success There Shall Be No Night; Marcus Lee Hansen (posthumously), late professor of American history at the University of Illinois, for his historical study The Atlantic Migration; New York Daily News Editorial Writer Reuben Maury "for distinguished editorial writing during the year"; Scripps-Howard Columnist Westbrook Pegler for his columns on scandals in U.S. organized labor; Chicago Times Cartoonist Jacob Burck for his cartoon "If I Should Die Before I Wake," depicting a child praying in a bomb-shattered room; 53-year...
Outstanding skipper on the river was Lennie Romangia of Brown who captured several firsts in his ten starts, pushing the Bears total up to 108, one point behind the Crimson. Skipper Roger Wilcox '41 and John S. Winship '41, sailed one of the Cantab boats while Robert B. Sherwood '13 and Arthur L. Besse '42 handled the other...
...congratulations for a fine, beautifully written tribute to Sherwood Anderson [TIME, April 7]. I don't think Sherwood ever answered his critics, though he might have. He wrote time and again about them in his letters, he professed to be insensitive to what they said, but he was nevertheless sensitive about the charge that he was obsessed with sex. When, three months before his death, my secretary and myself had dinner with the Andersons, Sherwood mentioned that he was writing his memoirs. My secretary, knowing that Sherwood had lived in many portions of the United States, and thinking also...
Gluyas Williams '11 won the 1939 medal as a result of his cartoons of suburban life, and last year's award was given to Robert E. Sherwood '18 in recognition of his Pulitzer Prize-winning play, "Abe Lincoln in Illinois...