Gibbs, W., and, 25, 147–52, 168, 210, 218, 340
personality and characteristics, 146–47
resignation of, 298–99
Ross and, 16, 18, 146–47, 151–52
theater reviews and, 207
White, E. B., and, 146
White, K., and, 146, 148
World Almanac, The, 239
World of John McNulty, The, 239
World’s Fair, 193–94
World War I, 15–16, 33, 44, 227
World War II:
Addams and, 262
Birmingham and, 232
Gibbs, W., and, 194–95, 257–58, 261–63, 266, 273, 274–77
Irvin and, 262
Lardner and, 265–66
Liebling and, 263–65
Lobrano and, 259, 267
Maloney and, 273
McKelway and, 262, 268–72
Mosher and, 266
Rose and, 262
Ross and, 86, 170, 258–59, 261, 263, 265, 272, 319
Shawn and, 265, 267–68, 273–74
Thurber and, 259–60, 266
Whitaker and, 267
White, E. B., and, 220, 259–61, 277–82
White, K., and, 261
WOR radio station, 125
Worsham, Lew, 87
Wouk, Herman, 331
Wrenn, Philip W., Jr., 245, 329
Writer, The (magazine), 103
Wylie, Elinor, 144
Wylie, Philip, 82–83, 85–86
Yaddo writers’ colony (New York), 347
Yale Review, The, 205
Yale University, 32, 79, 120, 154, 161, 170, 191, 214, 284, 335
Yankee Doodle Dandy (film), 308
Years with Ross, The (Thurber), 339
Young, Stark, 212
Young, Vernon, 205
Zerbe, Jerome, 238
Zogbaum, Harry St. Clair, 107
“Zoo Revisited” (E. B. White), 182
Zorina, Vera, 214n
Zucca, Rita, 203n
Zuleika Dobson (Beerbohm), 305
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