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Hanan does not need to tailor his U.S. strips to U.S. taste. His idol is the New Yorker's James Thurber, and Louie bears a spiritual resemblance to Thurber's ineffectual heroes. Above all Hanan hates Superman; he considers Louie a sort of anti-Superman...
Crimson sailors braved snow, sleet, and driving rain yesterday to pull out an 81 to 50 triumph over the Dartmouth Yacht Club on the Charles River racecourse. Paced by Gus Putnam and Bud Thurber, the yachtsmen took three out of four scheduled races in the match to clinch the verdict...
Putnam and Thurber also teamed up Saturday to place second in a field of seven schools. The Crimson scored 252 points to Boston University...
...entered a strange, new, hermetic world, beguiling, hypnotic and gently self-destructive. Thenceforth she would be bombarded by the ultraviolet and infrared rays peculiar to Hollywood, and the anthropophagous attentions most peculiar of all to MGM. She might imagine M-G-M saying, like the doctor in James Thurber's cartoon: You're not my patient, Miss Kerr, you're my meat...
...Flaherty probably heard me say that," commented Humorist James (Is Sex Necessary?) Thurber in Manhattan. "I once met him at a party." The idea was no good anyway at this stage, reported Thurber, for "women are getting better. . . . Mr. O'Flaherty is too late-they...