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...mature in this country, Thurber,' he said. 'They're children. I was editor of the Stars and Stripes when I was twenty-five. Most men in their twenties don't know their way around yet. I think it's the goddam system of women schoolteachers.' I told him that I wanted to write, and he snarled, 'Writers are a dime a dozen, Thurber. What I want is an editor. I can't find editors. Nobody grows up. Do you know English?' I said I thought I knew English. 'Everybody thinks...
...trio about whom he fretted and fussed continually-the others were Andy [E.B.] White and Wolcott Gibbs. Our illnesses, or moods, or periods of unproductivity were a constant source of worry to him. When I was . . . undergoing a series of eye operations ... he came over [and] snarled, 'Goddam it, Thurber, I worry about you and England.' England at that time was going through the German blitz...
...problem because actually there is no story. And beyond that, they reflect a very personal, crinkly humorist and constitute a very Volstead Act and vers-libre period piece, the two things meeting in the on-the-wagon Don Marquis who said to a bartender: "I've conquered that goddam willpower of mine. Gimme a double Scotch...
...Seattle business leaders gathered in the Olympic Hotel in December 1952. Co-chairmen were the publishers of the Seattle Times and of the Post-Intelligencer. Master of ceremonies was Brewer Emil Sick, chief beneficiary of the Beck-directed union war of the 1930s, when Beck permitted "not a single goddam drop" of Brewery Workers Union beer to enter the Northwest from California or the East. Cried Sick: "We respect you as a labor leader-the greatest...
Whatever the evening occasion, Beck is usually ready by midnight to pull on his short nightgown ("Although," he says, "at $50,000 a year-just in salary-I ought to be able to buy silk pajamas without anybody thinking as goddam thing about it") to hop into bed for half an hour's reading, e.g., Harper's Bazaar, before his frenetic day ends...