Surprised (although I shouldn’t have been) to run across a contribution from James Thurber in this paperback, Great Flying Stories, published in 1958 by Dell.
You can see on the cover that Thurber gets top billing, right beside Charles Lindbergh.
The Thurber piece, “The Greatest Man In The World,” originally appeared in The New Yorker February 7, 1931. Below is a snippet of how it appears in that issue (bonus! An unusual illustrated fiction piece. Reginald Marsh did the drawing):
Four years later it was collected in Thurber’s The Middle-Aged Man On The Flying Trapeze
Here’s a link to The Library Of America page about “The Greatest Man In The World.” You’ll find that Thurber wrote this piece with Lindbergh very much on his mind (the LoA page links to a video of Keith Olberman reading the story).
According to The New Yorker database and Edwin T. Bowden’s indispensable James Thurber: A Bibliography, Thurber never published a New Yorker cartoon using Lindbergh’s name. He did however, contribute four Talk pieces referencing Lindbergh.
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From The Spill‘s A-Z
James Thurber Born, Columbus, Ohio, December 8, 1894. Died 1961, New York City. New Yorker work: 1927 -1961, with several pieces run posthumously. According to the New Yorker’s legendary editor, William Shawn, “In the early days, a small company of writers, artists, and editors — E.B. White, James Thurber, Peter Arno, and Katharine White among them — did more to make the magazine what it is than can be measured.”
Key cartoon collection: The Seal in the Bedroom and Other Predicaments (Harper & Bros., 1932). Key anthology (writings & drawings): The Thurber Carnival (Harper & Row, 1945). There have been a number of Thurber biographies. Burton Bernstein’s Thurber (Dodd, Mead, 1975) and Harrison Kinney’s James Thurber: His Life and Times (Henry Holt & Co., 1995) are essential. Website
Reginald Marsh Born in Paris, March 14, 1898, died in 1954: New Yorker work: 1925-1944. More information: dcmooregallery.com/artists/reginald-marsh