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JAMES THURBER'S own letters have been published now, and his mock introduction to an imaginary volume of his own correspondence--which the collection's editors have reprinted as a preface--is as fitting an epitaph as any. Thurber knew better than anyone--better, certainly, than his wife and his editor at The Atlantic, the reverent preservers of his letters--that writing for publication and writing mail are two different things. One of them does not produce crisp polished prose...
...loons that have been their summer companions. The bird family turns out to be diminished too-just the mother and father are left. Fonda eyes them and in the wry, dry voice that has drawled through our consciousness for almost half a century, speaks a kind of generational epitaph, weary but accepting. "Babies are all grown up . . . and moved to Los Angeles or somewhere...
...Dillon never forgets, Bowles brought a gallantry to her out matched struggle with her life. It is strangely fitting that her last major stroke occurred while she was dancing at a party in her madhouse, thus earning herself her own brave and touching epitaph: "I have never yet enjoyed a day, but I have never stopped trying to happiness." arrange for - By Melvin Maddocks...
...probably didn't even know he was writing his own epitaph...
...wear a ribbon-bedecked U.S.O. "uniform" of his own devising, Jessel boasted friendships with five Presidents and took credit for inventing two American institutions: the celebrity "roast" and the Bloody Mary cocktail. A fixture at three decades of Hollywood funerals (he delivered eulogies), he left behind his own epitaph: "I tell you here from the shade, it is all worthwhile...