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CREDOS AND CURIOS (180 pp.)-James Thurber-Harper...
Died. Timothy Costello, 67, shillelagh-sporting Manhattan pubkeeper and longtime confidant of such writers as Hemingway, Steinbeck, O'Hara, and most visibly, James Thurber, who adorned Costello's Third Avenue saloon with his free-swinging sketches of the eternal war between the sexes; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Westport, Conn., Nash's Barn: A new revue based on the works of the late James Thurber, The Beast in Me, with music by Don Elliot and lyrics by James Costigan, and starring Frank McHugh...
...devoted exclusively to criticism of the nation's press, and promising to "deal forthrightly with what it finds to be deficient or irresponsible and to salute what it finds to be responsible, fair and professional." The newcomer sounds off in various voices, on a scale ranging from James Thurber's dry comment on newspapers' tendency to merge ("One day there is going to be just one newspaper and the whole front page will have to be devoted to the name") to an exhaustive reprise of the recent press row over Merriam-Webster's new dictionary (which...
...Columbus, Ohio, hometown of that late and great satirist, ground was broken for the James Thurber shopping center and apartment development. Lest his fans think the whole idea was laughable, his widow said solemnly, "It is especially good that his name is connected with something growing-that is what he would appreciate more than anything else...