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...connection is close enough so that "The Male Animal," with Old M. U. as its locale, strikes a responsive note. Probably all schools have trustees and intellectual English professors and football heroes of two generations, none of whom get along too well together. And therein, decided Messrs. Thurber and Nugent, lies a tale. Their treatment of the struggle between Professor Tommy Thompson, played most appealingly by Elliott Nugent himself, and the various and sundry trustees and All-Americans who try to rob him of his intellectual freedom and his wife makes swell comedy...
...radical editor with the playwrights' universal sign of radicalism-a shock of hair; and a telephone voice answering to the name of Hot Garters. Leon Ames as the former midwestern star back for homecoming is cast to perfection. Even without a capable set of actors, however, the Thurber humor in the lines would still make "The Male Animal" highly entertaining...
...this reading, James Thurber's "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" seems the best of an excellent field, it may not be necessary to defend the choice. The little man, now the indomitable sea dog, Captain Mitty, now the great surgeon, and overshoes, but even in the moment of defeat and annihilation "the inscrutable Walter Mitty"-- he may remain for us the symbol of our age, with his two-for-a-cent dream life manufactured by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and his real life a complex of frustration. There is space only to mention Irwin Shaw's three stories, Christopher Isherwood...
...Several days before their football game with Notre Dame, 16 varsity members of the University of Southern California team came down with flu. Also stricken were Head Coach Howard Jones and the team's doctor, Delos Packard Thurber. The Trojans lost...
Three eminent Manhattan humorists-James Thurber, Robert Benchley, Stanley Walker-turned out to be contributors to Man to Man. They had once sold some pieces (sample title: How to Poker) to a naughty little journal called For Men formerly published by Country Press. Fawcett editors had resurrected their pieces from the files...