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...morning while shaving, Wolcott Ferris, prosperous insurance broker, froze before his bathroom mirror as if he had seen a shrunken head. He had seen something worse: his shrunken self. "What are you missing?" he asked his blue-grey eyes. "Why the hell do you exist? Why do you go on living?" Why had life been picked clean to the bones short...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Forever Babbitt | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

Mamie Thurber has gone on performing. Her husband died in 1939 at the age of 72, but she is still at it, an amazing old lady of 85, with piercing grey eyes under black brows, and none of her staggering faculties impaired. Wolcott Gibbs, of The New Yorker, has written of Thurber's "sure grasp of confusion." Nobody who ever heard Jim's mother tell a long, detailed, uproarious misadventure story would wonder where his sureness of grasp came from. There are oldtimers in Columbus who insist that Jim is but his mother's pale copy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Priceless Gift of Laughter | 7/9/1951 | See Source »

...collaborators received three votes out of a total of nine. The runner up in the poll, which Variety conducts every year, was Wolcott Gibbs, author of "Season in the Sun." Gibbs received two votes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chapman Shares Limelight in New York Drama Crities Poll | 5/18/1951 | See Source »

...best of the current comedies is critic Wolcott Gibbs' Season in the Sun, a clever farce about life on New York's Fire Island. (Cort...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gotham Lights Beckon Exam Weary Students | 2/1/1951 | See Source »

Season in the Sun, a play by the "New Yorker's" witty drama critic, Wolcott Gibbs, is the outstanding farce of the season. It concerns life on Fire Island and is acted by a fine crow of competent performers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NYC Seethes with Entertainment for Holidays | 12/19/1950 | See Source »

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