Word: thurber
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This is the busiest time of the year for us," said Bob Thurber, dispatcher for Bonanza Bus Lines...
William Maxwell, novelist and former New Yorker fiction editor, is reluctant to talk about the magazine; but after saying that the "subject has been done to death," he adds "almost," and pages of anecdotes follow about Harold Ross, James Thurber, Wolcott Gibbs and Maxwell's "three wonderful writers all named John: John O'Hara, John Cheever and John Updike...
From the moment Moore and Ronis met nearly four years ago, while bit players in the freshman show, Thurber Carnival, they initiated the distinctive language they still share--a mixture of funny accents and idioms that comprises a gallery of imaginary people, many of them women...
...Katharine fell in love and married, after her divorce, in 1929. They lived happily ever after until her death in 1977. He also joined The New Yorker and, along with Founding Editor Ross and Contributor James Thurber, gave the magazine its voice and character. White could do, and did, everything Ross wanted. He took over "Notes and Comment," the opening section of each week's "Talk of the Town." These paragraphs did not take political sides but mused, sometimes acerbically, on the passing scene. Using the editorial "we," White once described how this process worked: "We write as we please...
...bored him. In 1938, he and Katharine moved to a 40-acre farm in North Brooklin, on the Maine seacoast. Ross was flabbergasted by the desertion of his most valuable player: "He just sails around in some God damn boat." Farming and rural life enchanted White, although he wrote Thurber in 1938, "I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens." He kept tending to both, writing a monthly column called "One Man's Meat" for Harper's magazine between 1938 and 1943. He continued to contribute to The New Yorker via the post office. The children...