Word: thurbers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ross furiously hired & fired, cajoled and cursed, trying to get the kind of magazine he wanted. In the first year and a half alone, about 100 staffers were fired, many with a muttered apology from Ross: "We need geniuses here." Gradually Ross found what he needed: James Thurber, E. B. White, Ogden Nash, John O'Hara, S. J. Perelman, Peter Arno, Helen Hokinson, 0. Soglow...
...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...