Thurber Thursday: Tablecloth Art

Tablecloth Art The other day I came to discover a Thurber article, “James Thurber: Doodler Extraordinary”* by Barbara Klaw in a now somewhat ancient American Heritage (February 1965). The two-page article centered on a photograph of a tablecloth covered with Thurber drawings. According to the American Heritage story, Thurber drew (in pencil) on the tablecloth while at Tim Costello’s restaurant

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Thurber Thursday: Tim Costello’s Beaverboard Thurbers

Tim Costello’s Beaverboard Thurbers Zipping around the world wide web (does anyone call it that anymore?) I came across an article from, of all things, the June issue of Dodge News Magazine on the 1972 restoration of  James Thurber’s drawn on beaverboard panels that once hung in Tim Costello’s bar. Directly below: all I could see of the article  (I’ll

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