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...page 81, TIME Book Critic John Skow pays an affectionate parting tribute to a member of our craft, the late James Thurber. Thurber appeared on TIME'S cover on July 9, 1951. By then his eyesight was far gone, and he had almost ceased doing any more drawing. But he obligingly availed himself of a large sheet of black paper (he could only see sharp contrasts), and with a piece of chalk drew the self-portrait that is reproduced here, along with several of his famous dogs...
Died. James Thurber, 66, creator of Walter Mitty and chronicler of the war between the sexes; a month after emergency surgery for a blood clot on the brain; in Manhattan...
...unicorn nibbled its last rose, and left the garden. But readers knew well enough what they had seen. James Thurber, who died at 66 last week, a month after an emergency operation to relieve a blood clot on the brain, was an aphorist of sad truths who mourned his times with laughter...
Words were Thurber's obsession; in one of his stories drunken friends burst in upon the narrator, forlornly sober, to tell him of the words they have found locked in other words...
Lanterns and Lances, by James Thurber. Tongue twisters, riddles, puns, palindromes and the war between the sexes, acrobatically presented by that old master of reverse English: Semaj Rebruht...