Robert Emmet Sherwood (1896-1955) was an American playwright whose penetrating dramas often showed an idealistic hero confronted with war. Robert E. Sherwood was born in New Rochelle, N.Y., on April 4, 1896. He graduated from Milton Academy (1914) and fr...

In the 1930s few living American playwrights were better known than Robert Emmet Sherwood. Offstage, when he served as an adviser to the president of the United States, and onstage, through productions such as The Road to Rome (1927), Reunion in Vienna (...

Robert E. Sherwood's dramatic works belong in the corpus of socially committed literature that was rooted in the ferment of the interwar period. A prolific playwright, Sherwood made a substantial contribution to American drama, averaging one play a year....

Expansion area includes important historic sites and fossils. HOLBROOK, ARIZ. -- Petrified Forest National Park could double in size if Congress takes the necessary steps to fulfill a Park Service general management plan calling for the addition of nearly 98,000 acres of...

Byline: KEITH WATERHOUSE A MAN I know claims never to have done a day's work in his life. Which is not to say he did not have a job. He was employed, until he took early retirement, in local government. He...

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When every passing sunray transforms the color and character of Sedona's red-rock formations, it's easy to see why visitors are awed by its grandeur. Sedona boasts the kind of beauty that stirs the senses and moves the soul: radiant red rocks carved out by canyons...