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...humorous highpoints of the evening were quotations from Mark Twain and Ring Lardner; however, the panelists managed to define their particular concepts of what humor is--or should...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: Panel Finds What's Funny; Nixon Funniest, Says Capp | 10/25/1952 | See Source »

Dickens is dead-and who cares? Dickens was an old-fashioned sentimentalist who roared with laughter at his own comic caricatures and wept buckets over his pathetic children and heroines whiter (and frailer) than the driven snow. But Dickens had gusto. So did Mark Twain; so did Kipling; so did H. G. Wells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cheerful Protestant | 10/20/1952 | See Source »

...Clemens of Hannibal, by Dixon Wecter. The late editor of the unpublished Mark Twain Papers shows how much Clemens' youth contributed to the golden dream of boyhood in Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Oct. 13, 1952 | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

...Clemens of Hannibal, by Dixon Wecter. The late editor of the unpublished Mark Twain Papers shows how much Clemens' youth contributed to the golden dream of boyhood in Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Sep. 29, 1952 | 9/29/1952 | See Source »

...Clemens of Hannibal, by Dixon Wecter. The late editor of the unpublished Mark Twain Papers shows how much Clemens' youth contributed to the golden dream of boyhood in Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Sep. 22, 1952 | 9/22/1952 | See Source »

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