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Thurber Thursday: “The Goddamdest Lion Fight Ever Put On Paper.”

February 16, 2023 michael News

                            “The Goddamdest Lion Fight Ever Put On Paper.”  Leafing through Robert E. Morsberger’s James Thurber (volume #62 of Twaynes U.S. Authors Series), I came across the above quote by The New Yorker‘s founder and first editor, Harold Ross. He was commenting on one of a series

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