78 Years Ago Today: “The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty” Broadcast From The Algonquin Roundtable, this audio clip of James Thurber’s The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty, read by Robert Benchley (as part of a 1944 CBS Radio Broadcast series, “This Is My Best”). The audio clip is just 19 minutes — not the full performance. — my thanks
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— Photo courtesy of Anne Hall Elser Sad news has come this way via Mike Lynch that the great cartoonist Bill Woodman passed away on Saturday. Between 1975 and 2003, Mr. Woodman published one hundred and
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Latest Parody Addition To The Spill Library: “The New Yawker” From James Thurber’s alma mater, Ohio State University, and The Sun Dial (the O.S.U. magazine he wrote for and edited within the first decade of the 1900s): The New Yawker. Very pleased to have come across this copy (the only one I’ve seen) and added it to the collection*(see below
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Another Harvey In The House I fell for this Alice Harvey original drawing the instant I spied it online. Luckily it has found its way to the Spill’s archives. Published in The New Yorker March 20, 1926, it was one of Harvey’s first dozen cartoons in the magazine (the Spill collection includes Ms. Harvey’s first captioned New Yorker drawing, published
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