Thurber Thursday: 88 Years Ago This Week In The New Yorker

Somewhat like a digital version of throwing a dart at a map, and then exploring where the dart lands, I went to The New Yorker‘s database this afternoon thinking I’d explore a random issue for Thurber drawings. I chose 1935 (for no reason), and found, amazingly, there was an April 20, 1935 issue. Here’s what I found, Thurber-related, in that issue: 

In The Goings On About Town section, this fab Thurber frieze:

On page 25, a simple (even for Thurber) drawing with a bit of social commentary…check out Walter Lippmann’s Wikipedia entry if you’re unfamiliar with Thurber’s reference:

As if that wasn’t enough for one issue, a Thurber story. I’ve found it was only included in one Thurber collection, The Middle Aged Man On The Flying Trapeze, published in 1935. Surprisingly, it’s not a humor piece. Harrison Kinney ever-so-slightly reworked the title for Chapter 42 of his Thurber biography, His Life And Times. It appears as “That Man On The Train”): ________________________________________________________________________

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