Thurber Remains Humble Literary Lion at Party
A cocktail party in the Algonquin Rose Room honored humorist Jim Thurber. Friends and fellow writers including Ogden Nash Margaret Case Harrisman and Charles Addams praised his book and career while Thurber downplayed fame and recalled his reporter days with the New York Post and Columbus Dispatch.
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Earl Wilson
New York
Jim Thurber
Hemingway
Algonquin Rose Room
Mare Mare Connelly
Buck
Russel Crouse
Jim
Ogden Nash
Margaret Case Harrisman
Charles Addams
Harold Ross
Clarence Thurber
Department of Chemistry
Dartmouth
Pittsburgh
Thurber
Dr. Gilmore
Walter Mitty
New York Post
Columbus Dispatch
Eddy Gilmore
The
London
Mr. Thurber
Local Society Notes and Entertainment Columns
Kaye Landers spends a week in Birmingham visiting cousin Delbert Waddell. Various visits and hospital updates share a jumble of social life notes including a humorous Grover signature line and items about Debbie Reynolds, Bob Neal, Candy Jones, Jayne Mansfield, and other Hollywood connections.
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Debbie Reynolds
Baudouin
Bob Neal
Candy Jones
Harry Conover
Will Glickman
Perry Como
Marsha Rivers
Steve Allen
L.A
Audrey Meadows
H'wood
Quentin Reynolds
Police Story
Red Buttons
Bel Air
Calif
Miguel Aleman
Pres
Mexico
Eunice Oakes
The
Monkey
Newsweek Magazine
Jack Paar
Louis Nye
H’wood
Taffy Tuttle
Morgan County Social News Highlights Local Visits
Mrs John Edwards and Ray spent Saturday with her sister in Birmingham. Ozelle McNutt and R L McNutt visited ill Jim McKay. Families from Morgan County report visits to Alabama Texas California Ohio and other relatives with numerous gatherings and showers.
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John Edwards
Ray
Lona Shaw
Birmingham
Jimmy Gauge
St. Louis
Elbert Self
R. L
Ozelle McNutt
Jim McKay
A. W. Taylor, Jr
Edward Smallwood
Harold
Omer Morris
Nora
Nena
Eula Morris
Copeland Vest
Washington
Herman Vest
Richard Wallace
California
Annie Wallace
Alice Vest
Junior Taylor
William Taylor
Janice
Tillman Wallace
Carolyn
Christine Wallace
Robert George
Ohio
Aggravating Boyfriends Prompt Quick Bursts
A humorous note from 1958 highlights how boyfriends can be both exasperating and overly swift, as a speaker vented that they move too slowly to please or too quickly to keep up. The remark attributes the quip to Earl, a brother figure, in a Hall Syndicate context.
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Earl
Wnerie
the Hall Syndicate
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Clarkston, Mich
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Regina Winsett
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Union
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Chicago
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Norman Rucker
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Otto Owens
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Grover
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Jughaid
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Jack Tippi
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