Word: wolcott
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...GEORGE WOLCOTT Antigo...
...Died. Wolcott Gibbs, 56, writer and drama critic for The New Yorker magazine, author of the 1950 Broadway hit comedy Season in the Sun, which chronicled the sins and insecurities of the Manhattan literary set's Fire Island summer resort; of a heart attack at his summer home on Fire Island...
During his occupancy of the Kirkland Street house, Eliot's position as an assistant professor expired, and, although he had hoped to be appointed Rumford Professor of Chemistry, Wolcott Gibbs was chosen for the chair. Eliot was forced to leave Harvard, and shortly thereafter became a professor at M.I.T...
...Thereupon he wrote Thurber out of the imagined society of efficient journalists and treated him as a sort of basket case. "I was a completely different man," writes Thurber ". . . one of the trio about whom he fretted and fussed continually-the others were Andy [E.B.] White and Wolcott Gibbs. Our illnesses, or moods, or periods of unproductivity were a constant source of worry to him. When I was . . . undergoing a series of eye operations ... he came over [and] snarled, 'Goddam it, Thurber, I worry about you and England.' England at that time was going through the German blitz...
...Bellboys' triumph was a team effort, as five players joined in the scoring; Ed Harding had two; and Sam Wolcott, Dave Dearborn, Bill Henry and Norman Marsh scored one apiece...