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...would also appeal to paying audiences. Against the advice of another Hollywood agent ("Most people can read nowadays-who needs it?"), Gregory mortgaged his car to book a concert-like tour called An Armful of Books. Laughton's readings from the Bible and Shakespeare on through James Thurber have since carried him on two more such tours...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 11:35 a.m., CBS). Henry James's The Ambassadors, discussed by Lyman Bryson, Mark Van Doren, James Thurber...
...Charles Addans White. 2. Westbrook Pegler. 3. E. B. White 4. James Thurber...
...twist on an old James Thurber story, You Could Look It Up, in which a fictional midget hit into a last inning third...
...they wrote a hit play, The Male Animal, in which Nugent starred. Its root idea: "What might have happened if we had stayed on at Ohio State?" Later it was a successful movie, directed by Nugent. Perhaps disgruntled by the play, Ohio State has never granted Distinguished Son Thurber an honorary degree. Even before Williams College honored him, however, small, urbane Kenyon College (Gambier, Ohio) had made him a Doctor of Letters...