Word: thurberism
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Last week he left Manhattan for Hollywood to begin work on his new picture, an adaptation of James Thurber's The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, and play out his radio program from the West Coast. In all his work, new or old, he never forgets how he got where...
...James Thurber, world-weary artist-humorist (My World-and Welcome to It, My Life and Hard Times), was admitted to the dusty, plushy National Institute of Arts and Letters.* Also elevated: versifying Information Pleaser Franklin Pierce Adams, meticulous Poet Wallace Stevens (Harmonium), rumpled, ever-ready Poet Robert P. Tristram Coffin (Maine Ballads), left-winging Dramatist Lillian Hellman (Watch on the Rhine), New York Times Columnist Simeon Strunsky (Topics of The Times...
...French accessories, including 15 chic Lilly Dache hats, for the first covers, to be photographed in Manhattan. She believes that French humorists are now turning out only bitter satire-so she bought a double-page spread of cartoons by the New Yorker's not-so-bitter James Thurber...
...WHITE DEER-James Thurber-Harcourt, Brace...
...spring-fever time in the enchanted forest-scene of James Thurber's latest excursion into the world of fantasy. The rabbits tipped their heads, as men tip their hats, "removing them with their paws and putting them back again." A pink comet flashed by, missing the world by inches. The air was full of the tinkling of musical mud, the roar of barking trees, the flight of wingless birds. In fact, everything was just as usual...