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Married. Phyllis Diller, 48, nightclub and TV clown; and Warde Donovan, 49, sometime actor; both for the second time, one month after Phyllis divorced Sherwood ("Fang") Diller, unseen straight man of her comedy routines; in Pacific Palisades, Calif...
...WORLDS OF ROBERT E. SHERWOOD, Mirror to His Times by John Mason Brown. 409 pages. Harper...
During the next 25 years, Robert Emmet Sherwood became successively a well-known movie and book reviewer, magazine editor, script doctor, playwright (Idiot's Delight, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, There Shall Be No Night) and speechwriter to President Roosevelt. In this effusive biography, Critic John Mason Brown leans heavily on the lighter side. The reader hears all about Sherwood's sensational buck and wing, his low-keyed Algonquin witticisms, his red-eyed passion for high-stakes poker, model airplanes, and croquet in Central Park at $10 a wicket. Unhappily, Biographer Brown requires 386 pages to take his subject...
...While L.B.J. is trying so desperately to give an image of the Great White Knight or of Robin Hood creating a Sherwood Forest, I am reminded of another childhood tale, The Tar Baby. As the President's honey-toned, sugar-coated words come dripping from your pages or a radio, I find myself smothering an immense urge to warn all the little rabbits: "Don't be fooled, 'cause once you're stuck, you can't get unstuck...
Divorced. By Phyllis Diller, 48, raucous-toned nightclub comedienne; Sherwood Diller, 52, her manager and longtime butt of onstage gibes; on grounds of incompatibility; after 25 years of marriage, five children; in St. Louis...