Word: thurber
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During wassail, Thurber's ambivalence can snap loose and he may be given to bursts of hooting & hollering. A New Yorker editor once returned to the office after a stormy evening at the Algonquin Hotel and thoughtfully announced, "Thurber is the greatest guy in the world up to 5 p.m." Those who love Thurber ascribe such outbursts to old-fashioned artistic temperament and simply shrug them off. They know that when real troubles arise, there is nobody more steadfast and generous. The jams he has helped and comforted friends through are without number...
...When The Thurber Album is completed, his next big effort will probably be another play. On Men, Women and Dogs, Thurber has a percentage-of-box-office deal with United Productions. If the picture is a success-and nearly everything Thurber touches creatively is successful-he will earn a great deal of money. For a man who has never once demeaned his talent for profit, nor ever aimed at mass appeal, he has already earned quite...
...more Thurber movies are made-and there is plenty of material to draw on-it is conceivable that the people and creatures of his imagination may one day be figures in international folklore. Already The Lancet, a learned British medical journal, has used the term "Walter Mitty syndrome" in referring to daydreaming on a grandiose scale...
...Although they would probably give the accolade for funniest, saddest and best single Thurber story to The Secret Life of Walter Mitty...
...they wrote a hit play, The Male Animal, in which Nugent starred. Its root idea: "What might have happened if we had stayed on at Ohio State?" Later it was a successful movie, directed by Nugent. Perhaps disgruntled by the play, Ohio State has never granted Distinguished Son Thurber an honorary degree. Even before Williams College honored him, however, small, urbane Kenyon College (Gambier, Ohio) had made him a Doctor of Letters...