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Ryan, Irene, 103
Ryan, Tim, 103
Ryder Press, 328
St. Nicholas (magazine) 28, 32
St. Nicholas Arena, 225
Saint-Quentin, René Doynel de, 142
Salinger, J. D., 76, 185, 188, 320
Salt Lake Telegram and Tribune, 15
San Francisco Conference (1945), 287
Sarasota Special (musical), 197
Sardi’s (restaurant), 208
Saroyan, William, 138, 190
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 208
Saturday Evening Post, 17, 18, 154, 184, 242
Saturday Review of Literature, The, 61, 114, 180, 201, 209, 275, 344
Sauce for the Emperor (play), 44
Sauers, Frederick, 335
Saxton, Eugene, 94
Sayre, Joel, 52–53, 61, 76, 96, 263
Schafer, Natalie, 322
Schapiro, Meyer, 328
Schiff, Mortimer, 128
Scholastic magazine, 171
Scholastic Magazines, 328
Schrafft’s, 109, 241
Schultz, Dutch, 56
Schwartz, Jonathan, 194
Sea Dogs (play), 199–200
Searching Wind, The (play), 205
Season in the Sun (play), 5, 306–14, 345, 357
Season in the Sun and Other Pleasures (W. Gibbs), 340
“Season in the Sun” series (W. Gibbs), 5, 232-33, 306
Seattle Times, 29
Second Tree from the Corner, The (E. B. White), 182, 333
“Secret Life of Myself, The” (W. Gibbs), 305
“Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The” (Thurber), 223
Seeger, Pete, 194n
Seldes, Gilbert, 111
Sergeant, Charles, 32
Sergeant, Erastus, 32
Sergeant, John, 32
Sergeant, Katharine, see White, Katharine
Seton, Anya, 139
Seventh New Yorker Album, The, 97–98
“Shad Ampersand” (W. Gibbs), 189–90
“Shakespeare, Here’s Your Hat” (W. Gibbs), 190
Shanley, John P., 197n
Sharkey, Jack, 126
Shaw, Irwin, 68, 71, 185, 200–201, 284, 333
Shawn, Wallace, 324
Shawn, William:
Addams and, 349
background and early years, 273–74
Behrman and, 319, 352
Capote and, 352
dealing with authors, 334
Fleischmann and, 319
Gibbs, W., and, 274, 276–77, 324, 339
Hamburger and, 322
Harriman and, 169
Lobrano and, 320–21
Maloney and, 117
McKelway and, 53, 143, 270, 296, 323
postwar years and, 284
Ross, H., and, 15, 143, 274, 279, 295, 319
Ross, L., and, 274n
Thurber and, 319–20, 337, 344, 346
Whitaker and, 267–68
White, E. B., and, 279, 324
White, K., and, 31, 325
World War II and, 265, 267–68, 273–74
Sheldon, Sidney, 214n
Sherriff, R. C., 272n
Sherry, Valentine, 231
Sherwin, Elinor Mead, see Gibbs, Elinor
Sherwin, Harold, 134, 274
Sherwin-Williams paint company, 134
Shipstead, Henrik, 153
Shouts and Murmurs (The New Yorker), 27, 145, 147
Show Business magazine, 327
Shubert organization, 208
Shull, Leo, 327
Shuman, Ik, 68, 281
Sidis, William James, 174
Sikorsky, Igor, 181
Silliman, Leonard, 131
Silverman, Herman, 207
Simon, Joanna, 231
Simon, Richard, 231
Simon and Schuster, 283
Simonson, Lee, 272
Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 188
Sitwell, Joan Castle, 308
Six Characters in Search of an Author (play), 337
Skene, Don, 307n
Skin of Our Teeth, The (play), 217
Sleep, My Love (film), 297
Sleep, My Pretty One (play), 205
Sleepy Hollow (play), 118
Smight, Jack, 197n
Smith, Al, 142
Sobol, Louis, 198–99
Soglow, Otto, 83, 88, 181
Sohier, George B., 115
Sokolov, Raymond, 264
“Soldier” (Brown), 262
Soma, Tony, 238
“Some of the Nicest Guys You Ever Saw” (W. Gibbs), 263
“Song at Twilight” (W. Gibbs), 233
Son of Lassie (film), 275
Soretsky, Leo, 89
South Pacific (musical), 207
Spanish Civil War, 265
“Speakeasy Nights” (Busch), 235
Spewak, Bella, 296
Spewak, Sam, 296
Stafford, Jean, 72, 352
Stalin, Josef, 169, 292
Stamford, Connecticut, 136, 218, 222, 290
Stancourt, Evelyn, 128
Stancourt, Louis, 128
Stark, Helen, 237, 251
Starry Stranger (W. Gibbs), 325
Stars and Stripes, 15–16, 25
Steig, William, 89, 98, 331
Steinberg, Saul, 83, 331
Stern, Henry “Bunny,” 230, 246
Stern, Morley, 231
Stern, Nancy, 230, 246, 325
Stern, Susan, 230, 246
Stern, Tony, 330
Stevenson, James, 46–47
Stewart, Jimmy, 297
Stilwell, “Vinegar Joe,” 271
Stoddard, Haila, 345
Stokowski, Leopold, 142
Stork Club, 145, 199, 237
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 132, 315
Straight, Beatrice, 142
“Street Song” (Thurber), 38
Stritch, Elaine, 197n
Stroheim, Erich von, 142
Strunk, William, 9–10, 28, 333–34
Stuart Little (E. B. White), 10, 302–3
Subtreasury of American Humor, A, 221
Sullivan, Ed, 213
Sullivan, Frank, 73, 140, 148–49, 185, 232, 237, 290, 317, 331
Summer and Smoke (play), 207–8
Sun Also Rises, The (Hemingway), 76
Sundial (humor magazine), 36
“Survival” (Hersey), 284
Susskind, David, 197n
Swope, Herbert Bayard, 198
Tables for Two (The New Yorker), 27, 236, 265
Talk of the Town, The (The New Yorker):
about, 17
Brennan and, 321
Gibbs, W., and, 3, 24
Hamburger and, 261–62
Lardner and, 265
Maloney and, 114, 115, 261–62
McGuinness and, 40
McKelway and, 53, 158
Munves, 111
O’Hara and, 78
Packard and, 42
Ross and, 261
Shawn and, 274
Thurber and, 34, 60, 114, 139
Whitaker and, 41
White, E. B., and, 60, 139, 178–79
White, K., and, 352
Talmey, Allene, 156, 158
Taylor, Robert Lewis, 244, 263
Ten North Frederick (O’Hara), 300, 332
Terry, Daise E., 46–48, 88, 97, 176, 252, 273
“Test, The” (A. Gibbs), 131
theater reviews:
Benchley and, 3, 201–2
Gibbs, W., and, 3, 118, 138, 199–216, 247–49, 337–38
Watts and, 163
Woollcott and, 207
“Theatre, The” (W. Gibbs), 283
Theatre Authority, 142
“Theory and Practice of Criticizing the Criticism of Editing New Yorker Articles” (Thurber), 305n
“Theory and Practice of Editing New Yorker Articles” (W. Gibbs), 69–71, 183, 188
“They’d Have Taken Him If He Was Only a Torso” (McNulty), 239
13 Clocks, The (
Thurber), 301–2
Thompson, Charlie, 308
Thompson, Dorothy, 259
Thomson, Virgil, 44
Thoreau, Henry David, 221, 333
Three Caballeros, The (film), 275
Thurber, Althea, 38, 125, 222
Thurber, Charles, 35
Thurber, Helen, 125, 174, 222, 240n, 294, 341, 344
Thurber, James:
advancing maturity, 222–25
Algonquin Hotel and, 49, 125, 222, 252, 259, 295
areas of contribution, 7, 60–61, 114, 174–75
background and early years, 35–36
Benchley and, 223–24
Bleeck’s and, 242
books written, 7, 13, 174, 221, 223, 283, 301–2, 337, 339
Coates and, 222
death of, 336n, 346
distancing from magazine, 174–77
drinking culture and, 245, 251–52, 254, 255
Foord and, 254
Gibbs, W. and, 7, 49, 60, 93–94, 111–12, 119, 172, 189, 222, 237, 295, 301, 305n, 310, 326, 330, 339, 344
illustrations of, 93–97, 101, 240–41, 259
Ingersoll and, 155, 175
Irvin and, 85
Lobrano and, 266, 282, 336
Long and, 222
Maloney and, 114, 115
McKelway and, 176, 222, 268, 323
McNulty and, 239
medical issues, 7–8, 11, 35, 97, 174, 222–23, 294–96, 336
mentioned in poem, x
Mosher and, 44, 63, 222
newspaper experience, 36–37
O’Hara and, 299
Parker and, 7, 222
payment for work, 108–9
personal relationships and marriages, 124–26, 174, 222, 335
plays written, 8, 176, 223, 310, 335–36, 345–46
poem from fan, 177
postwar years and, 289, 290, 294–96, 301–2
Ross and, 8, 11, 13, 38, 39, 49, 68, 69, 95, 124, 175, 223, 224, 237, 295, 317, 336, 346
Sayre and, 52
Shawn and, 319–20, 337, 344, 346
Terry and, 47
Whitaker and, 337
White, E. B., and, 34–35, 38, 59, 60, 63, 94, 109–10, 112, 177, 179–80, 222, 301, 335, 336, 345, 346
White, K., and, 110, 112, 294, 335, 336
World War II and, 259–60, 266
Thurber, Mary, 35
Thurber, Robert, 125, 237
Thurber, Rosemary, 222, 335
Thurber, William, 35
Thurber Carnival, A (play), 345–46
Thurber Country (Thurber), 337
Tierney, Gene, 176
Time, 4–5, 8, 152–72
“Time . . . Fortune . . . Life . . . Luce” (W. Gibbs), 4–5, 159, 170, 340
Timestyle, 154, 167
Tobey, Barney, 103
Todd, Mike, 209
Tone, Franchot, 142
Tony Award, 308, 313, 346
Toohey, John Peter, 16
“To Sublet, Furnished” (W. Gibbs), 188
To the Finland Station (Wilson), 138
Town and Country, 183
Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A (film), 275
Triangle Productions, 297
Truax, Hawley, 18
Truckline Café (play), 212
Trumbo, Dalton, 205–6
Trumpet of the Swan, The (E. B. White), 352
Turquoise, The (Seton), 139
Twain, Mark, 8, 221
21 (night club), 111, 113, 152, 199, 208, 237, 329
United Nations, 287
United Press, 28
University Club, 41
Updike, John, 188, 335
Up the Down Staircase (Kaufman), 250
Valentine, Grace, 308
Valentino, Rudolph, 37
Vallee, Rudy, 120, 142
Van Buren, Martin, 20, 187
Vanderbilt, Cornelius, Jr., 121
Vanderbilt, Sanderson, 53, 66, 245
Van Doren, Mark, 222, 335
Vanity Fair, 16, 156, 157, 167n
Vanzetti, Bartolomeo, 176
Vassar College, 27, 31, 130
“Vernal Account, The” (E. B. White), 30
“Very Active Type Man, A” (W. Gibbs), 191
Vierick, George Sylvester, 145
Viking Press, 195
Villa, Elizabeth “Tish,” 338–39, 342–44, 355
“Villanelle of Horatio Street, Manhattan” (Thurber), 38
Vogue, 132, 156
“Voice of Broadway, The” column, 213
Von Stahremberg, Hans, 145
Waiting for Godot (play), 337
Walden, Harriet “Tippy,” 13, 121, 313
Walden, William, 72, 111, 121, 161n, 312–13
Walker, Danton, 146, 147
Walker, Stanley, 119, 218, 243
Wallace, DeWitt, 107
Wanger, Walter, 45
“War Between Men and Women, The” series (Thurber), 7, 96
Warshow, Robert, 288
Washington Herald, 55
Washington Star, 54
Waterston, Sam, 222n
Watts, Richard, 163, 164, 194, 211
Waugh, Alec, 134–35, 224, 235
Waugh, Alexander, 135n
Waugh, Evelyn, 134
Wave of the Future, The (Lindbergh), 260
Webber, Robert, 197n
Wechsberg, Joseph, 184
Wechsler, Herman, 328
Weekes, Hobart Godfrey “Hobie,” 12, 41, 68, 70, 81, 87
Weidman, Jerome, 74–75
Welles, Orson, 114, 118
Wellesley College, 134
Wellman, Edward John, 298
Welty, Eudora, 188
Wertenbaker, Charles, 133
West, Mae, 160
West, Rebecca, 61, 285, 296, 316
West Cornwall, Connecticut, 99, 222
Weston, Jack, 313–14
Whalen, Grover, 194
“What Do You Mean It Was Brillig?” (Thurber), 7
“Where Are They Now?” (The New Yorker), 174
“Where Was I?” (W. Gibbs), 293
While You Were Gone, 283
“Whip-Poor-Will, The” (Thurber), 223
Whitaker, Rogers E. M., 41–42, 68, 81, 267, 323, 337
White, Andrew D., 28
White, Elwyn Brooks “Andy”:
advancing maturity, 219–22, 234, 333, 350–54
Algonquin Hotel and, 304
areas of contribution, 8–9, 33–34, 59–60
background and early years, 27–29, 32
Benchley and, 111, 237n, 255
Bogan and, 217
books written, 10, 178, 179, 182, 221, 276, 279, 282, 288, 302–4, 332–34, 351–52, 354
bunk and critical put-downs, 139, 141, 156
Cain and, 52
Case and, 334
dealing with artists, 93
death of, 354
distancing from magazine, 174, 177–83, 185–86
Fleischmann and, 180–81
Gibbs, W., and, 9, 185, 221, 276–77, 331, 355
Ingersoll and, 59, 180
Lobrano and, 183, 185, 281, 320
Maine and, 9
Maloney and, 114, 116, 272
married life, 121–24, 178, 180–83, 353
McKelway and, 304, 323
mentioned in poem, ix
newspaper experience, 29
on The New Yorker, 26
parodies and, 276
payment for work, 108–9
personality and characteristics, 354
postwar years and, 286–90, 292–93, 301–5
Ross and, 11, 17, 27, 28, 30–31, 39, 59, 109, 178–79, 181, 185, 258–59, 266, 274, 278–80, 287, 288, 317–18
Shawn and, 279, 324
Terry and, 47, 273
Thurber and, 34–35, 38, 59, 60, 63, 94, 109–10, 112, 177, 179–80, 222, 301, 335, 336, 345, 346
Wilson and, 302
Winchell and, 144
Woollcott and, 146
World War II and, 220, 259�
��61, 277–82
White, Jessie, 27
White, Joel, 124, 323
White, Katharine:
advancing maturity, 219–22, 280, 351–52
areas of contribution, 11–12, 38
background and early years, 32–33
Bogan and, 217
bunk and critical put-downs, 157
Cain and, 50, 52
dealing with artists, 88
dealing with writers, 107, 109, 119
death of, 352
Fleischmann and, 180–81
Gibbs, W., and, 63, 69, 72–73, 74, 112, 113, 130, 221, 255, 281, 325, 341
Gorman and, 344
Ingersoll and, 155
Liebling and, 71
Lobrano and, 183, 185, 280–82, 320–21
magazine format and, 85
Maloney and, 114, 115, 116, 272
married life, 121–24, 178, 180–83, 353
McKelway and, 53, 297, 323
medical issues, 293, 351, 352
mentioned in poem, x
Mosher and, 45, 63
O’Hara and, 75, 77, 78, 113, 246, 299
Pemberton and, 40n
personality and characteristics, 31–32, 38, 71–74, 121–24, 165n
Rose and, 317–18
Ross and, 62, 68–69, 71–73, 218, 255, 277, 281
Shawn and, 31, 325
Terry and, 46, 47, 273
Thurber and, 110, 112, 294, 335, 336
Woollcott and, 146, 148
World War II and, 261
White, Lillian, 38
White, Miles, 213
White, Pearl, 181
White, Samuel, 27
White Cliffs, The (Miller), 18
White Deer, The (Thurber), 301
Whorf, Richard, 308
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (play), 308
“Who Was Harold, What Was He?” (Thurber), 13
“Why We Go to Cabarets” (Mackay), 26
Widow, The (magazine), 323
Wild Flag, The (E. B. White), 288
Wilkinson, Alec, 188
Wilkinson, Peter, 344
Williams, Garth, 354
Williams, Gluyas, 93, 156, 178
Williams, Jane, 175, 295–96
Williams, Ronald, 175, 295–96
Williams, Tennessee, 207
Williams College, 44
Wilner, Isaiah, 154
Wilson, Earl, 213
Wilson, Edmund, 13, 15, 111, 115, 138–39, 184, 217, 302
Winchell, Walter, 123, 141–45, 168, 213, 238, 251, 253, 259, 341
Winney, Harold, 107, 281
Winter Garden Theatre, 209
Winterset (play), 191
Wismer, Helen, see Thurber, Helen
“Wit’s End” (W. Gibbs), 61, 247
Wit’s End (salon setup), 18
Wizard of Oz, The (film), 116
Wizard of Oz, The (play), 201
Wodehouse, P. G., 72
Wolcott, Laura, 19
Wolcott, Oliver, 19
Wolcott, Oliver, Jr., 19
Woman’s Home Companion, 28
Wonderful O, The (Thurber), 7, 337
Wonderful Town (musical), 232
Woods, Mark, 145
Woollcott, Alexander:
areas of contribution, 12, 27, 145–46
Fleischmann and, 147