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There has always been a lyrical and escapist streak in Jamon Thurber. IN the midst of his satire and anecdote--all very much of this world--it has showed itself quietly, in a series of children's books and fairy stories: "Many Moons," "The Great Quilow," "The White Door." The latest in this line is "The 13 Clocks...
...getting tired of getting hit on the head. There were three bad ones in '44-'45. Two in '43 and the others go back to '18. People think they come from carelessness. But they don't. At least none that I remember did." James Thurber estimated "I have four-fifteenths of my life span left . . . Just like you, I expect to be blown up, but hope that I won't be." Historian Arnold Toynbee felt that "One of the traps into which modern scholars seem to me to fall is that they spend their...
...Italy. Author Guareschi is a magazine editor who spent much of the war in German concentration camps and has now been singled out as a class enemy by no less a figure than Italian Communist Leader Palmiro Togliatti. Guareschi is a whole imagination away from the "Italian James Thurber" that his publishers hopefully label him, but The Little World is a dual Book-of-the-Month Club selection, which ought to please them just as much...
...Said That? (Mon. 10:30 p.m., NBC-TV). Guests: Jan Struther, James Thurber, Henry Morgan...
...Yorker readers who scanned the anniversary issue might get a deceptive sense that things have changed not at all: with a sentimentality that he would loudly scorn, Editor Harold Ross had rounded up contributions from such time-honored New Yorker favorites as E. B. White, James Thurber, Ogden Nash, John McNulty, Peter Arno, Gluyas Williams and the late Helen Hokinson. Readers with a long memory could even pick up the fourth part of a "profile"* of the late Playwright Wilson Mizner where Alva Johnston left off eight years...