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...Shawn who persuaded a skeptical Ross to introduce the magazine's excellent World War II coverage, and to devote an entire issue to John Hersey's report on Hiroshima. Shawn is now handicapped by the fact that most of the writers (Thurber, E. B. White, Wolcott Gibbs, Clifton Fadiman, Joel Sayre, Alva Johnston, et al.) and cartoonists (Peter Arno, Helen Hokinson, O. Soglow, Gardner Rea, et al.) who made The New Yorker famous have either died, wandered off to the exurbs, or become infrequent contributors. E. B. White's civilized despair and gentle celebration of nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Years Without Ross | 5/16/1960 | See Source »

...Carney Show (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). The versatile Carney is now a railroad employee ferrying freight-car barges (and strange cargo) across the Hudson River, in a script suggested by a Wolcott Gibbs short story. Color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, may 9, 1960 | 5/9/1960 | See Source »

...GEORGE WOLCOTT Antigo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 6, 1959 | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 25, 1958 | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Administration Plans Purchase Of Eliot's Kirkland St. Residence | 5/8/1958 | See Source »

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