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...elections for next year following the discussion, John L. Donnell '40 was chosen President and Templeton Smith '40 was named Vice-President, Donald MacD. D. Thurber '40 was elected Memorial Society Secretary, while Cranston E. Jones '40 and Alfred W. Putnam '41 will find positions as Treasurer and Archivist...
Bouts in the 125 and 145 classes went by the boards, as Don Thurber of Eliot won the flyweight event by default, for the Elephants only victory, and Leo Kahn took the 145 bout when no opponent showed...
...Scott Long, Jr., '39, Roger B. Merriman '96, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, Donald M. D. Thurber '40, and Robert E. Wernick...
Humor, like poetry, has never been successfully defined. But that U. S. humor, at least, has something crazy in it has been proved every week for years by the famed New Yorker. Two of that smartchart's mainstays have been James Thurber and Wolcott Gibbs. Without buying up back files readers last week could get a slice of Gibbs and Thurber humor in concentrated form...
Like The New Yorker's talented one-time lead-off man, E. B. White (TIME, Aug. 16), James Thurber is no longer a member of the staff, is wandering quietly through Europe. Master of the familiar, walk-do-not-run-to-the-exit style, Funnyman Thurber writes with a sad, lucid patience perfectly matched by his underdone drawings. For bringing earnest balloons to earth or dissolving reason in a clap of blankness, James Thurber has few contemporary equals. Nervous himself, he evidently has lost patience with the recent deluge of small volumes popularizing psychiatry. The series...