Word: wolcott
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...NEUROSES-Wolcott Gibbs-Dodd, Mead...
Humor, like poetry, has never been successfully defined. But that U. S. humor, at least, has something crazy in it has been proved every week for years by the famed New Yorker. Two of that smartchart's mainstays have been James Thurber and Wolcott Gibbs. Without buying up back files readers last week could get a slice of Gibbs and Thurber humor in concentrated form...
...much more standardized humorist. Wolcott Gibbs is so self-depreciating that when he was managing editor of The New Yorker he kept his own copy out of the issue on every opportunity. For once an author's apologetic foreword ("How I ever came to write and collect the pieces in this book must remain an impressive mystery. Why the publisher is printing them is something he will have to explain to his God") is to be believed. Best pieces in his book, Bed of Neuroses, are the parodies. Best parodies: "Time . . . Fortune . . . Life . . . Luce," "Death in the Rumble Seat...
...years president of University of West Virginia's Board of Governors. Through his glasses, honest, deliberate old Mr. Smith looked down on an imposing array of Weirton attorneys headed by Clyde A. Armstrong and opposing them. N. L. R. B.'s youthful prosecutors, 27-year-old John Wolcott Porter and 32-year-old Allen Heald. Behind the lawyers sate loyal Weirton company union men with red, whit & blue badges, side by side with C. I. O. members and organizers with bright yellow C. L. O. buttons...
With Mr. White gone, and until Mr. Thurber's return next spring, the guiding minds of The New Yorker will be Editor Harold Ross, St. Clair McKelway, Wolcott Gibbs and Mrs. White (Katharine Sergeant Angell), who remains in Manhattan as managing editor. But "Notes and Comment" will be written by a newcomer to the metropolitan scene, Romeyn ("Rym") Berry, longtime (1919-36) graduate manager of athletics at Cornell University. Rym Berry is about as much like Andy White as a polar bear is like an amoeba. Shy, smallish Mr. White first met big Mr. Berry, who is the equal...