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...James Thurber's The Unicorn in the Garden, Willie the Kid, and the Academy-Award-winning Gerald McBoing-Boing...
Life Can Be Beautiful (sponsor: Tide, a detergent) is not radio's oldest daytime serial,* but, if only for its title, it has often been taken as the epitome of the "kind of sandwich" once described by James Thurber: "Between thick slices of advertising, spread twelve minutes of dialogue, add predicament, villainy and female suffering in equal measure, throw in a dash of nobility, sprinkle with tears, season with organ music, cover with a rich announcer sauce, and serve five times a week." Actually, Elsie Beebe ranges less frequently over the tearstained world of suffering women than many...
...that I wish to belittle Dr. Ruben A. Stirton's zealous search for facts about the prehistoric diprotodon [TIME, July 20], but it seems to me that James Thurber discovered it first...
...believe Mr. Thurber's friend [see cut] wears a wider smile and carries its tail at a jauntier angle because it has just discovered it is not herbivorous at all. It enjoyed its meal of Millmoss thoroughly...
...feelings. Moving about from home to school to barbershop, he has recalled a pace of life that the U.S. will surely never know again, and the nostalgia he evokes is sometimes as moving as a Sandburg folk song. What is lacking is the elusive human dimension that James Thurber caught (for Columbus, Ohio) in The Thurber Album...