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Palm Beach was titillated by the off-again-on-again marriage plans of Horace E. Dodge Jr., 52-year-old heir of motor millions, who recently settled $1,000,000 on wife No. 4 so that he could take No. 5, ex-Showgirl Gregg Sherwood, 26. One of the reported spats occurred around vichyssoise time at lunch one day, when Gregg dropped the word that she had imported a Manhattan pressagent to help spread the tidings of her forthcoming wedding. This spoiled lunch for Horace, who fumed, "What am I, a dancer? I want publicity?" But on Valentine...
...saga of the Sherwood sisters from Columbus, Ohio and their misadventures in a Greenwich Village basement with a past should be pretty well known by now. Certainly it is to Rosalind Russell who to creates her old role as the protective elder sister. A charmingly casual comedienne. Miss Russell plays the long suffering Ruth with lump angularity and delivers the play's best lines with superb timing. She is also more than adequate to the musical demands of Wonderful Town, meeting them with a surprisingly strong voice and high good humon. When a song is clearly out of her range...
...television has always been that the networks not only sell commercial spots to their sponsors but often let the advertisers control the programs as well. This week NBC made a major move to reverse the trend. It signed an unprecedented contract with Pulitzer Prize-Winning Dramatist & Biographer Robert Sherwood (Idiot's Delight, Roosevelt and Hopkins], guaranteeing him more than $100,000 for a series of nine original hour-long TV plays to be written during the next three years. An even more important and unusual stipulation: Sherwood may write about any subject he chooses (except religious controversy...
...contract grew out of a lunch with RCA President Frank Folsom at which Sherwood complained that radio & TV were the only mediums in which writers have no contact with the heads of the industry. Folsom announced that NBC was happy "to grant the artistic freedom which all fine authors require to create great works of art." Says Sherwood, with satisfaction: "Under the contract, the question of quality is left entirely to me. They can't say that the boy has to get the girl." His only worry: "If I write nine stinkers, it's going to be pretty...
Illinois. Republican William G. Stratton, 38, defeated Adlai Stevenson's lieutenant governor, Sherwood Dixon, by at least 175,000 votes. Dixon took an early lead, but could not hold...