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...authority, having had in them a lifelong interest. He can write about them, too, up to a certain incoherent point where the blissful inanity- or is it miracle?-of "just being alive" turns upon itself and leaves his lazy mind groping for words. Nowadays Huck Finn is called Sherwood Anderson...
...Robert E. Sherwood, 70, oldest living circus clown, much impressed President Coolidge when he said that he was the first performer to turn a handspring over seven horses and two elephants. The President then replied that he used to rise, when a boy, at 2:30 a. m. so he could go to the circus. Mr. Sherwood retaliated with the presentation of the book of his life: Here We Are Again...
...literature, Anne Parrish's Victor Campion (The Perennial Bachelor) and Sherwood Anderson's Fred Grey (Dark Laughter) are proclaimed the best recent examples of "that cruel maldevelopment." Childhood's innocence is not scorned. The doctor appraises it warmly in the writings of A. A Milne, Henry James, James Barrie, Daisy Ashford, Nathalia Crane. His sterner brief is simply against those qualities in children which, smothering innocence, are most often carried beyond puberty-meanness, stupidity, intolerance...
William Rosenwald, son of Sears, Roebuck & Co. Chairman Julius Rosenwald: "Interviewed by newsgatherers last week I said: 'I deeply regret the false impression given to the press by a statement which I made (TIME, Oct. 11) concerning the Sherwood Eddy mission to Russia of which I was a member. I did not say that the Eddy mission was "filled full of bunk." I meant to say that it was almost impossible to get into the real heart of the Russian people. I fully agreed with and signed the letter sent to President Coolidge (recommending U. S. recognition of Russia...
...Sherwood Eddy himself, the tempestuous Asiatic Secretary of the Y.M.C.A. and ten members of his mission had signed and posted a letter to President Coolidge requesting the immediate recognition by the U.S. of the U. S. S. R. (Union of Socialist Soviet Republics). Previously President William Francis of the Chicago Y.M.C.A.-no Communist-had demanded the resignation of Mr. Eddy from the Y.M.C.A. At Moscow, fearless Sherwood Eddy had debated the existence of God before a great gathering of Atheists. A Chicago Tribune correspondent, shocked, cabled lurid rumors of Mr. Eddy's Communist leanings. Last week Sherwood Eddy refuted...