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As even his good eye faded. Thurber sketched and wrote with a black crayon on huge sheets of yellow paper. When the fog became too thick, he stopped sketching and learned, helped by his second wife, Helen, to write by dictation. He kept his courage and improved his prose; The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAMES THURBER | 11/10/1961 | See Source »

They do the most delightful things down at Yale. Three freshmen were implicated last week in an incident involving a "gotcha" exposure.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Expose Yalie 'Gotchas' | 10/25/1961 | See Source »

THE standards of excellence of modern English light fiction--comfortable clarity and generous wit--are, like Shakespeare's standards, centered in that purest of human pleasures, a garden, this one the size of shire, and tended until her recent death by the softly malicious and completely delightful Angela Thirkell. Those...

Author: By Anthony Hiss, | Title: Mr. Colin Wilson Among the Bores Of Bohemia | 10/14/1961 | See Source »

Niles cast his spell as much with his introductions and manner as with his singing. There is a bit of Barnum in him; no, a big hunk of Barnum. Woven in with this is a strain of the hillbilly preacher. And over these basic characteristics floats the unmistakable, delightful smell...

Author: By Joseph M. Russin, | Title: Niles at Eliot | 10/13/1961 | See Source »

The Parent Trap. The delightful story of teen-age twins who try to kid their divorced parents into remarrying-both twins played by Hayley Mills, biggest child star since Temple and a better actress than Shirley was.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sep. 29, 1961 | 9/29/1961 | See Source »

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