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...Sitcom with a Message As our Milestone of actor Bob Denver noted [Sept. 19], he played the role of Gilligan in the popular 1960s TV comedy Gilligan's Island. Ten years ago, we profiled the creator of the show, Sherwood Schwartz, in a piece called "The Inventor of Bad TV." Here's an excerpt from that story [March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 10/10/2005 | See Source »

...even if the myriad smaller coastal restoration projects are fully funded, it might not be enough. Bigger storms, experts insist, require bigger ideas. Geologist Sherwood Gagliano has spent a lifetime trying to figure out how to save his sinking state, and he has come up with what he thinks is the only plan ambitious enough to match the size of the problem. His idea: to redirect a branch of the Mississippi through the heart of Terrebonne Parish, the most densely populated in the delta. Shipping lanes would remain routed through New Orleans, but much of the Mississippi would be diverted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unsafe Harbor | 10/3/2005 | See Source »

...Sherwood, who is fighting a civil suit filed by a woman less than half his age with whom he says he had a five-year affair. No criminal charges were filed against Sherwood after his mistress, who is now 29, called 911 and told police Sherwood had tried to choke her during a backrub. But she has sued the four-term Republican from Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania for $5.5 million, saying he repeatedly struck her, violently yanked her hair and tried to strangle her, promising after each incident never to do it again and begging her not to leave him. Sherwood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congressional Scandal Roundup | 8/15/2005 | See Source »

...space station, and nothing more. But the shuttle also means jobs--many in politically pivotal Florida--and that gives it a lot of support. In July, House Democrats negotiated a provision out of a budget bill that would have codified the 2010 deadline. And Science Committee chairman Representative Sherwood Boehlert of New York remains a loyal shuttle supporter. "Nothing is in jeopardy except the schedule," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why NASA Can't Get It Right | 8/1/2005 | See Source »

...familiar with all the details of his life: his wife Eleanor, his Scottish Terrier Fala, his cigarette holder, his stamp collection. Yet F.D.R.'s Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. described him as simultaneously evasive and frank, frivolous as well as grave, "a man of bewildering complexity." The playwright Robert Sherwood, who served for years as the President's speechwriter, admitted that he had never been able to penetrate Roosevelt's "heavily forested interior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interiors: The Roosevelts | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

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