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...SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY has been boldly extrapolated from the celebrated James Thurber story. The youngsters have not been cowed by the sanctity of the master, and the clever lyrics, melodically oriented songs and infectious joie de vivre of the cast make this a thoroughly pleasant musical evening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Theater, Records, Cinema, Books: Nov. 13, 1964 | 11/13/1964 | See Source »

...wonder what would have happened to great Hugo if he had not been so much of a teetotaler or if he had ever, as I once challenged him to do, joined me at the Stork Club with Broun, Benchley and Thurber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 16, 1964 | 10/16/1964 | See Source »

Baby Want a Kiss is a sort of ventriloquiz, a chance to guess whose playwriting voice is being thrown onstage. Dramatist James Costigan can mimic the voices of Edward Albee, lonesco and the Theater of the Absurd, Pirandello and even James Thurber, but except for a few sallies of wit and whimsy, he cannot speak for himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Echo Chamber | 5/1/1964 | See Source »

...writing Beatle ("He's the arty one"), is-in his own way-describing the members of the Neville Club as they sit in hubbered lumps smoking Hernia and taking Odeon. In this startling collection of verse and prosery, Lennon has rolled Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll and James Thurber into one great post-Joycean spitball. All those jellybean-lobbing, caterwauling Beatle fans are not going to understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: All My Own Work | 5/1/1964 | See Source »

...CHILDREN'S THEATER (NBC, 6-7 p.m.). Premiére of a new show for young children. Tonight a musical adaptation of James Thurber's fantasy, The Great Quillow. Color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Reading: Nov. 1, 1963 | 11/1/1963 | See Source »

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