Word: thurbers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...agency friends knew that Obie had already drawn Cannon. A hurried exchange of phone calls followed, and genial Obie readily agreed to lend the new magazine his Joe Cannon portrait for its cover. Thus, he was the first of some 70 artists of renown (including Diego Rivera and James Thurber, who did their own portraits) who have drawn the parade of world figures on more than 1,600 TIME covers...
Died. Mary Agnes Fisher Thurber, 89, mother of The New Yorker Humorist James Thurber and subject of his essay Lavender with a Difference: "Lavender and old lace ... are not for Mary Thurber. It would be hard for me to say what it is ... She never wears black . . . 'Black is for old ladies,' she told me . . . not long ago"; in Columbus, Ohio...
...THURBER'S DOGS, by James Thurber (294 pp.; Simon & Schuster: $3.95), are certainly the most lovingly regarded dogs in U.S. literature. Whether he draws them or writes about them, Thurber does it with the air of a man who knows what it is to lead a dog's life. A collection of pieces and pictures sometimes as affecting as they are funny...
...able for a placidity of viewpoint unlike much social satire. The other stories are marred more or less, as I have said, by an obvious effort to be murky or ultra-lucid. The "Art of Fiction" interview, tenth of a uniformly excellent series, is with James Thurber...
...yarns of plugging canal leaks, spiriting runaway slaves along the underground railway, and keeping books for a traveling circus are crammed with theologasters, dawpluckers, makebates, hoodledashers and such archaic huncamunca. His grandson's version of baseball in the Abner Doubleday country may not be so uproarious as James Thurber's rowdy recollections of the game in Columbus, Ohio. But his saga of Hop Bitters ("The Invalid's Friend& Hope"-alcoholic content: 40%), which Patent Medicine Man Asa T. Soule of Rochester put over by promoting a baseball team and a hilariously crooked sculling championship, invites comparison with...