Thurber’s classic “The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty” first appeared in The New Yorker issue of March 18, 1939. It’s a 1 and 2/3rds page piece (a Morris Bishop poem takes up the other 1/3 of a page). As we know, the piece was twice made into a film. In an interview with George Plimpton and Max Steele in 1958,
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Saturday Review’s Salute To Thurber I believe that of all the notices following James Thurber’s passing in November 1961, it is E.B. White’s opening sentence in The New Yorker’s Thurber obituary (in the November 11th, ’61 issue) that is most remembered: “I am one of the lucky ones; I knew him before blindness hit him, before fame hit him, and
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