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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That he could never be, but James Thurber quickly established himself as one of the ablest, easily the maddest member of the neurotic crew that staffs the brightest weekly in the U. S. For two years no one but his friend and fellow editor, Elwyn Brooks ("Andy") White, could see anv merit in the thousands of drawings with which Thurber covered all the loose stationery in The New Yorker office. Artist Thurber may not be a second Picasso but he is indubitably one of the most prolific telephone booth moral ists in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Morose Scrawler | 12/31/1934 | See Source »

...Elwyn Brooks ("Andy") White, the "E. B. W." who signs much of the fiction and light verse in The New Yorker. He writes many of the captions and taglines in the back of the book. More important, he is the anonymous author of the rapier-like "Notes & Comment" which leads off The New Yorker's famed "Talk of the Town," sometimes called the best column in Manhattan. Shy, gentle, melancholy "Andy" White, 35, was a newsman and adman before joining The New Yorker in 1926?just when Editor Ross needed him most. Five years ago he married The New Yorker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: The New Yorker | 8/6/1934 | See Source »

...retail cars through dealers, and accordingly signed up the Harvard Automobile Co. as Authorized Distributors. For twenty years they have been exclusively official Ford sales and service representatives. Mr. William E. Furniss is still President of the Company, and actively engaged in the business, together with his son, Mr. Elwyn S. Furniss, who is General Manager and Treasurer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO. 1 | 3/28/1934 | See Source »

...intensive membership drive and see all men interested in Christian work. The organization expects to have outside speakers address their meetings during the winter who will be of interest to many men. The officers of the society for the coming year are: president, Richard M. Powell '35; secretary, Elwyn E. Tilden, Jr. '36; treasurer, Glenn H. Leak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Evangelical Club | 10/13/1933 | See Source »

...Gloucester , Manes Specter of Cambridge, Charles H. Stanton of Boston, John M. Strachan of Hude Park, David U, Sullivan of Cambridge, Edward D. Sulivan of Dorchester, James J. Sullivan of Dorchester, Leo E. Sweeney, Jr.. of Charlestown, Henry W. Syer of Sommerville, Paul C. Tiffany of Cambridge, Elwyn E. Tilden, Jr. of Holbrook, Frederick B. Tolles of Newtonville, Minot W. Tripp of Falmouth, Alexander A. Valois, Jr. of Cambridge, Herbert H. Walley, Jr. of West Newton, Herbert S. Wallis of Cambridge, Herbert H. Walley, Jr. of West Newton, Herbert S. Wallis of Cambridge, Francis J. Walsh of Cambridge, Earle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AWARD 180 AIDS, SCHOLARSHIPS TO MEMBERS OF 1936 | 12/1/1932 | See Source »

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