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Thurber Thursday: A 1958 Webster’s Dictionary Ad… “I Keep Trying To Catch Mistakes…”

September 12, 2024 michael News

I recently came across the below ad for Webster’s Dictionary (it appeared in Time, February 3, 1958) — until the other day I’d never seen it before. It’s different than so many Thurber ads as it does not contain any Thurber drawings (I’ve shown a few of those for comparison). Perhaps, this being an ad for a dictionary, it seemed

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