Word: humorists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Strickland Gillilan, 84, oldtime Midwest newspaperman turned humorist, best known for his 1910 Irish-dialect railroader poem, Finnigin to Flannigan ("Off agin, on agin, gone agin.-Finnigin"); in Warrenton...
...Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, got so tired of the great sleuth that he had wicked Professor Moriarty shove him over a waterfall, restored him to life only after a public clamor. Humorist Stephen Leacock also tried his hand at rubbing Sherlock out: he put him on all fours, entered him as a dachshund in an international dog show, and had him painlessly destroyed for not having a dog license...
That moved West Virginia's Democratic Senator Matthew Neely to remark that Gillette "in effect, told us to go to the birds." The success of this retort inspired Neely to still further heights. He suggested that the Senate borrow from the late Humorist Stephen Leacock...
Neither a "creative writer," nor a journalist, nor a poet (although he has, apparently, always hankered for the latter estate), White is a rare combination of philosopher and humorist, who writes because of a compulsion "to tie his love for the world into a convenient bundle, accessible...
...military men on SPCA duty ("Space Platform for Checking Aggression") blow the earth to bits out of sheer boredom. "About Myself is a nightmare comedy of numbers set in an Orwellian bureaucracy. ("My left front tire is Number 48KE8846, my right front tire is Number 63T6895".) But if Humorist White jangles the nerves with predictable frequency, he remembers how to jiggle the funny bone too. His four-page "Across the Street and into the Grill," a parody of Hemingway, is a minor triumph of satirical humor...