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Index
Abbott and Costello, 229
Adams, Bristol, 105-106
Adams, Charles, 38, 125
Adams, Franklin P. 86, 114, 118, 119
Adams, Henry, 170, 179
Adams, Louella, 105, 107
Aiken, Conrad, 269
Alarms and Diversions, 308, 311
Albright, Margery, 34-36, 58, 282-283, 299
Algonquin Round Table, 119
Alice in Wonderland, 159
Allen, Fred, 215
Allen, Hervey, 186
Allen, Walter, 288
Algrant, Rollie, 265-266
Algrant, Rose, 265, 327
Ambassadors, The, 126
American Foundation for the Blind, 172
American Legion News Service, 107, 109
American Library Association, 244, 303
American Mercury magazine, 119
American Romance, An, 91
Anderson, Hayward, 73
Anderson, Sherwood, 71-72
Andrus, Gertrude, 247
Angell, Roger, 198-199
“Anger Is, Anger Was,” 239
Anthony Adverse, 186, 194
Armed Forces Editions, 143, 172, 185, 191, 248, 259
Arno, Peter, 125, 313, 314
Associated Press, 65, 105, 299
Atkinson, Brooks, 224
Atlantic-Little Brown, 314
Atlantic Monthly, 289, 301-302, 312, 313, 325
Avon Books, 274
Babbitt, 268
Bainbridge, John, 125
Bantam Books, 172, 219, 249
“Barbara Fritchie,” 211
Barry, Iris, 222
B.B.C., 263, 271
Beardsley, A., 71
Beast In Me and Other Animals, The, 260, 269, 274, 308, 329
“Beast in the Dingle, The,” 261, 269
Be Glad You’re Neurotic, 188
Bell, Lisle, 184
Benchley, Nathaniel, 163, 313
Benchley, Robert, 94, 119, 125, 213, 314
Benet, Stephen Vincent, 57, 114
Benet, W.R., 249, 256-257
Bennet, Arnold, 54
Benson, Sally, 124
Beerbolm, Sir. Max, 300
Berger, Meyer, 125
Bernstein, Burton, 29, 42-43, 56, 67, 119-120, 140, 148, 161, 195, 240, 278-279, 301
“Bermuda, I Love You,” 187-188
Bermudian magazine, 187
Best, Marshall, 218
“Bird and the Foxes, The,” 212
Bisch, Dr. Louis E., 188
Bitter Tea of Gen. Yen, The, 269
“Black Magic of Barney Haller, The,” 181-183, 207, 255
Blake, Mrs. Robert, 207
Blue Ribbon Books, 143, 172, 185, 226
Blue Vogue, 269
Bogan, Louise, 125
Bonfils, Helen, 323, 324
Book Find Club, 289, 302, 326
Book of the Month Club, 259, 311, 320
Books, 222, 226
Boston Transcript, The, 183
Bowen, Elizabeth, 268
“Box to Hide In, A,” 151-152
Boyle, Kay, 124
“Boy I Knew, A,” 101-102
Braille editions, 185
Brandon, Henry, 150-151
Brande, Dorothea, 188
Breit, Harvey, 172
Broun, Haywood, 114
Browning, R., 51
Bruce, Dr. Gordon, 191, 228-233, 299
Bryan, Lt. Joseph, 205
Byrd, Adm. R., 80
Buchwald, Art, 300
Buell, E.L., 246
Burchfield, Alice, 106-108, 110-111, 113-114
Burr, George Lincoln, 105, 106
Butcher, Fanny, 307
Cabala, The, 268
Cabell, James Branch, 71, 72
Cain, James M., 117, 125
“Cane in the Corridor, The,” 235
Cannery Row, 286-287
Capa, Robert, 123
Capote, Truman, 240-241
Carnegie, Dale, 188
Carroll Lewis, 15, 53, 72, 264, 330
Case, Frank, 227
“Casey at the Bat,” 229
Cass, Peggy, 323
Cassidy, T.E., 289
“Cat and the Riddle, The,” 73
Cather, Willa, 72, 315, 322
Catholic World, 289
Chaplin, Charlie, 213
Charlotte’s Web, 99
Cheever, John 124
Chicago Tribune, The, 77-78, 80-82, 83, 138, 307
“Child’s Play,” 115
Christian Science Monitor, The, 253, 297, 307
Citizen Kane, 118
Clark, Clorinda, 289
Clark, Gerald, 241
“Clean Town, A,” 70
Clemens, Samuel, 117-118
Cleveland Orchestra, 75
Clocks of Columbus, The, 299
Coates, Robert, 173
Collecting Himself, 329
Columbus Dispatch, The, 46, 61-64, 70-75, 78, 82, 85-86, 169, 230, 234, 285, 299
Commonweal, 289
Connelly, Marc, 119, 222
“Conning Tower, The,” 86
Connolly, Cyril, 260
Conrad, Jos., 72, 206, 214
Converse, Captain, 47, 49, 50, 54, 74
Cooke, Alistair, 193, 302
Coolidge, Cal., 79-80
Cornell Daily Sun, 104-106
Cornell, Ezra, 104
Cornell University, 92, 96, 104-107
Cort, David, 319
Covarrubias, Miguel, 125
Covici-Friede, 291
Covici, Pascal “Pat,” 291
Coward, Noel, 150, 327
Cowley, Malcolm, 257
Cream of Thurber, 199
Credios and Curios (book), 329
“Credios and Curios” (column) 71, 74
Crouse, Russell, 70
Cuppy, Will, 149-150
Cushman, Harold, 108-109
Daisy Miller, 268
Damon, Dr. Virgil, 154
Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, The, 176
Darling, F.C., 253
Darrah, Dave, 77-78
Day, Clarence, 124, 165
“Day the Dam Broke, The,” 16, 166-170
Decline and Fall, 268
deHavilland, Olivia, 224
de Kruif, P., 86
de la Mare, Walter, 300
Dell Books, 143, 259
Delta Books, 260
Denney, Jos. Villiers, 46, 52, 54, 216, 285, 323
DeVries, Peter, 205, 250-251, 313, 326
Dickens, Charles, 51
DiSalle, Gov. Mike, 323
Disney films, 264
Disney, Walt, 157
Don Quixote, 109
Dorsey, Geo. Amos, 86
Duncan, Isadora, 82
East of Eden, 282
Edison, Thomas, 85
Edman, Irwin, 279, 297
Elements of Style, 105
Eliot, T.S., 300
Elledge, Scott, 94-96, 110-111
Enderle, Gertrude, 186
Enjoyment of Laughter, The, 165
Ernst, Margaret, 226
Ernest, Morris L., 173
Esquire, 312
Essein, Serge, 82
Events Leading Up to the Comedy, 215
Ewell, Tom, 323
“Excelsior,” 211
Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated, 211-213, 222, 224-226, 255, 302, 329
Fadiman, Clifton, 125, 313
Farrar, Strauss, 86
Fascism, 305
Faulkner, William, 123
February Hill, 269
Ferber, Edna, 119
Ferguson, Otis, 225
Fidler, R.E., 73
Finnegan’s Wake, 245
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 282
Fisher, Jacob, 27-28, 41, 60, 282
Fisher, Kate, 282
Fisher, William M. 28-33, 34, 35, 40, 58, 282, 299
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 67-68, 268
Flanner, Janet, 120-121, 125, 192, 300
Fleischmann, Raoul, 115, 119, 313
Flying Aces, 161
Foell, E.W., 307
Fonda, Henry, 224
Foord Clinic, 174, 239-240
Ford, Paul, 323
Forum, 220-221
Fournier, Alain, 268
Fowler’s Modern English Usage, 122, 145
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: A Memorial, 219
Friend to Alexander, A, 235
Fritts, Minette, 56-57, 59, 67, 274
Front Page, The, 61
Further Fables for Our Time, 301-302, 303
Gable, Clark, 210
Gaddis, Wm., 122
Gannett, Lewis, 265
Garnett, Edward, 269
Gaullet, A., 83
Genius in Disguise: Harold Ross of The New Yorker, 124
Gentle Julia, 268
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 86
Geraghty, James, 125
Ghostly, Alice, 323
Gibbs, Wolcott, 125, 139, 162, 235, 311, 312, 313
Gibney, Frank, 126, 131
Gibson, Charles Dana, 40
Gill, Brendan, 125
Gilmore, Eddy, 85-86
God and My Father, 268
Goldwyn, Samuel, 207, 267-268
Gone With the Wind, 209-210
Goodman, Jack, 300, 311
Grant, Jane, 119, 123-124, 316
Grauer, Neil, 49, 279, 330
Graves, Billy 285
Great Gatsby, The, 268-269
Great Quillow, The, 245, 251-252, 307, 329
Greenwich News and Graphic, 107
Grey, Zane, 44
Gross, Milt, 86
Grosset & Dunlap, 149, 159, 185, 191, 259
Grosz, Geo., 157
Guardian, The, 326
Gude, Jap, 152, 237, 241, 279, 327
Gude, Liz, 236, 279
Hahn, Emily, 124
Haid, William, 73
Hamburger, Phillip, 125
Hamish Hamilton, 141, 158, 172, 185, 191, 199, 226, 248, 249, 259, 274, 280, 289, 298, 300, 302, 307, 311, 320, 326
Handful of Dust, 268
Harcourt, Brace, 241, 247, 249
Harley, Chic, 53, 285
Harper & Bros (Harper & Row), 86, 141-142, 149, 155, 159, 172, 185, 191, 222, 226, 247, 248, 253, 273, 308, 310-311, 326
Harper’s magazine, 81, 165, 312
Harris, Jed, 222
Harris, S.J., 310
Havens, W.W., 73
Hawes, Elizabeth, 226
Hazzard, Shirley, 124
Heaven’s My Destination, 268
Hecht, Ben, 61, 71
Hefner, Hugh, 117
Held, John Jr., 125
Hellman, Lillian, 192, 280
Helm, Carl, 109
Hemingway, Ernest, 61, 82, 123, 134, 170-171, 179, 186, 192, 268, 327
Henley, W.E., 126
Henry Holt & Co., 86
Hergesheimer, J. 72, 126, 268
Hesse, Mildred, 103
Hiawatha, 103
Holiday magazine, 194, 300, 325
Holmes, Charles S., 16, 30, 35, 36, 42, 48, 51-52, 60, 67-68, 127, 140, 164, 179, 205-206, 221, 244-245, 269, 271-272, 295, 299, 307
Holmes, Sherlock, 72
Home Sector magazine, 119
Honeycutt, Ann, 135, 152, 161-162, 174, 239-240
Hopkinson, Helen, 125
Horizon, 260
Horn Book magazine, 247
Houdini, Harry, 85, 300
House, Col. Edward, 58
House in Paris, The, 268
Houseman, A.E., 51, 71
How to Develop Your Personality, 188
How to Raise a Dog, 226
How to Win Friends and Influence People, 188
How to Worry Successfully, 188
How to Write Short Stories, 269
Huckleberry Finn, 164, 172, 255
Hutchens, John K., 172
Hyde, Fillmore, 115
I Confess magazine, 175
“If the Tabloids Had Coverd the Famous Port ‘Love-Death” Scandal of Hero and Leander,” 87-91
“If You Ask Me,” 230
Illian, Lillian, 83, 92
In A Word, 226
Ingersoll, Ralph, 125, 230, 313, 317
Invitation to the Waltz, 268
Ireland, Billy, 285
Irvin, Rea, 125
Is Sex Necessary?, 73, 137-143, 248-249, 329-330
It Can’t Happen Here, 185
Jackson, Joseph Henry, 288
Jackson, Shirley, 124
James, Henry, 15-16, 39, 44, 51-52, 54, 58, 59, 71, 72, 95, 126, 261, 268, 269, 330
James Thurber, 203
“James Thurber: The Comic Prufrock,” 250
James Thurber: Writings and Drawings, 329
Java Head, 268
Joad, Tom, 109
Johnson, G.W., 288
Johnson, Jack, 272
Jordan, A.M., 247
“Josephine Has Her Day,” 75
Joyce, James, 71
Judge magazine, 119
Kahn, E.J. Jr., 125
Kansas City Star, The, 75, 80
Kaye, Danny, 207, 267-268
Keats, J., 51
Keillor, Garrison, 329
Kempy, 70
Kenyon College, 287
Kerr, Walter, 224
Kinkead, Eugene, 186
Kinney, Harrison, 27, 44, 67, 125, 130, 152, 161-162, 175-176, 187, 240, 264, 266, 313
Kirkus, 253, 257, 300, 306
Klu Klux Klan, 64
Kober, Arthur, 124
Korda, Alexander, 194
Korda, Michael, 194
Knox, Sen. Philander, 107
Kramer, Dale, 313
Kuehner, Norman, 62-65, 72, 127, 285
Kupferberg, Herbert, 309
Ladies Home Journal, 260
Lady into Fox, 269
Lady is Cold, The, 141
Lantern, The, 51, 52, 53, 54, 56, 61, 82, 142
Lanterns and Lances, 325, 326, 330
Lardner, James, 192
Lardner, John, 125
Lardner, Rex, 273
Lardner, Ring, 71, 114, 124, 229, 269, 314
Lardner, Ring Jr., 280
Last Flower, The, 218, 222, 236, 248, 309, 330
Laughton, Charles, 194
Lehmann, Rosamond, 268
Leigh, Vivian, 210
Lenglen, Suzanne, 82
Let Your Mind Alone! and Other More or Less Inspirational Topics, 188-191, 197, 255, 330
Lewis Sinclair, 186, 268
Libaire, B.B., 319
Library Journal, 247, 306, 310, 319
Liebling, A.J., 125, 300
Life, 189, 257, 266
Life with Father, 223
Lincoln, Abraham, 121
Lincoln, Victoria, 269
Linda Condon, 268
Literary Digest, 45
“Lochinvar,” 211
Loch Ness monster, 194, 300
“Locksley Hall,” 211
Logan, Andy, 125
London Daily Sketch, 193
Long, Gov. Huey, 273
Long, Lois, 313
Longfellow, H. W., 211
Loos, Anita, 86
Lopresti, R., 329
Lord Jim, 206
Lord, Russell, 92
Los Angeles Times, The, 157, 209, 213
Lost Lady, A, 269
Luce, Henry, 117, 317
Lyons, Russell, 320
MacBeth, 72
Machlin, Ruth Rowe, 40
MacKenzie, Sir Compton, 300
“Making of E.B. White, The,” 198
Male Animal, The, 52, 73, 208, 216-217, 222-224, 280, 287, 312
Mallet, Isabella, 264
“Man Who Came to Dinner, The,” 223
Manchester Guardian, The, 184
“Man with a Rose,” 28-29
Many Moons (book), 236, 241-247, 253, 307, 330
“Many Moons” (play), 73
Markey, Morris, 115
Marquis, Don, 114, 197
Martin, Neil, 297
Marx, Groucho, 222, 313
Marx, Gummo, 313
Marx, Harpo, 313
Matheson, Christy, 80
Maugham, Somerset, 71, 300
Mayo, Virginia, 224
Maxwell, William, 124
McCarthy, Mary, 125
McCarthyism, 54, 216, 224, 280, 287, 305
McCombs, Ralph, 40
McCord, David, 296
McCormick, Col. R., 78
McDaniel, Hattie, 210
McKelway, St. Clair, 125, 313
McNulty, John, 65-66, 234, 274, 311
McQueen, B., 210
McSweeney, Dr. John, 187
Meek, Thomas, 43, 68-69
Men Can Take It, 226
Mencken, H.L., 71, 124, 315
Men, Women and Dogs, 2
Meredith, Geo., 51
Microbe Hunters, 86
Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze, The, 176-186, 255, 330,
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 106
Miller, Dorothy, 153, 185
Miller, Herman, 77, 132-133, 153, 185-186, 262, 274, 275, 281
Miller, Henry, 78
Millet, Fred, 269
Millier, Arthur, 157, 213
Miss Lonelyhearts, 269
Mitchell, Joseph, 125
Mitchell, Margaret, 208-211, 224
Moby Dick, 122, 123
Modern Library, 259
Moon Is Down, The, 218, 280
Morley, Christopher, 114
Morris A.S., 279-280
Morseberger, Robert, 203-204
Morton, Charles, 309, 312
Mosher, John Chapin, 84
Mount Holyoke College, 161
Mount Vernon Daily Argus, 107
Moveable Feast, A, 61
Mumford, Lewis, 125
Murrow, Edward R., 322
Mussolini, B., 196
My Antonia, 269
My Life and Hard Times, 47, 50, 149, 164, 172, 179, 255, 281, 330
My Mortal Enemy, 269
My World — And Welcome to It, 204, 247, 254, 308
Nabakov, Vladimir, 124
Nash, Paul, 194
Nathan, George Jean, 71, 315
Nation, The, 224, 319, 324
National Geographic, The, 84
Natural, The, 229
