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DIED. ERMA BOMBECK, 69, humorist; following a kidney transplant; in San Francisco. The titles of her books spoke volumes about her view of motherhood, housewifery and life: I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression; The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank. Starting at $3 a column in 1964, she composed ruefully real depictions of domestic America that found a national audience among women who saw little of themselves in June Cleaver. Bombeck eventually appeared in 600 papers, but still lived the unpretentious life she wrote of, laughing through travail...
...York magazine political columnist Jacob Weisberg formed the nucleus of the stay-put group. "We have warmth, coffee and the means of mass communication," he explained. "I'm waiting." His faction included humorist Dave Barry, who suspected a plot to keep the quadrennial revenue stream flowing one more...
...blowsy as it is, this biography of the great American humorist has some appeal. Begun as an undergraduate thesis in 1948, it has been the avocation of a lifetime for Kinney, who is a free-lance writer. His children, now grown and gone, have lived with it all their lives. Parodying the Thurber memoir, The Years with Ross, they told their father that he should call his effort The Years with Thurber. The writing radiates the author's affection for his subject and a poignant willingness to take up the cudgels against any claim that Twain was Thurber's superior...
Perhaps one of these inspirational chats will launch the career of a budding politician (moderate to rabid Republican, we're guessing). But what usually comes across is the falseness, not of the contestants forced to reach for cheerful profundity, but of the format. Says humorist Harry Shearer, host of the syndicated weekly radio treasure Le Show and an avid trawler in the backwaters of pop culture: "I believe that if the serious guys on television had to discuss current affairs the way Miss America contestants do--gussied up in evening wear while an orchestra plays Isn't She Lovely...
...should I have known that god as humorist has in store for me the letter of recommendation as an art form?" he said...