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The Thurber Letters, page 92
Genoa, Italy, JT visits, 270
“Gentleman From Indiana” (Thurber), 522
George, Henry, 518
Geraghty, Jim, 376, 418
Gerard, James, 452, 453
German language, 239
Gershwin, George, 682
Gerstad, Johnny, 580
Gettell, Richard, JT letter to (1960), 714-15
Gettysburg Address, 15, 64
Getzloe, Lester
JT letters to (1951), 540-41
JT letters to (1954), 610
Gibbs, Elinor, 202, 231, 305, 647
Gibbs, Tony, 633, 648
Gibbs, Wolcott, 142, 143, 146, 159, 161, 165, 179-80, 198, 258, 277, 295, 305, 360, 414, 466, 477, 479, 486, 499, 506, 687, 692
Churchill article on The New Yorker and, 411, 412
death of, 693
first theater review, 298-99
Harriman book on The New Yorker and, 516
health problems of, 406, 686
JT letters to (1935), 202-5
JT letters to (1936), 223-24, 230-31
JT letters to (1937), 266-69
JT letters to (1952), 563-64
JT letters to (1955), 639-40
JT letters to (1957), 681-82
JT letters to (1958), 689-90
JT series on Harold Ross and, 631
Kramer book on The New Yorker and, 512, 513, 514, 515
New Yorker Comments and, 275-76
New Yorker Profile of Alexander Woollcott, 689, 690, 691, 693
No Bed of Neuroses, 561
Saturday Review and, 286
Season in the Sun (play), 496-97
Gibbs, Zeb, 67
Gilbert, William, 742
Gilkey, Robert, JT letter to (1952), 584-85
Gill, Brendan, 465-66, 479, 480, 486
Gilmore, Allen, 340, 351-52, 396-97, 491, 492
Gilmore, Althéa Adams Thurber (former wife), 340, 351-52
birth of second daughter, Linda, 355, 356, 357
See also Thurber, Althéa Adams (wife)
Gilmore, Linda Adams, 421
birth of, 355, 356, 357
Gladden, Washington, 501
goiters, 722
Gold, Michael, 173-77, 213
Goldwyn, Samuel, 8, 371, 584, 631, 728
JT letter to (1945-1946), 383
movie version of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and, 383-88, 397, 411, 481
Goodell, Abner C, Jr., 102
Goodman, Jack, 466, 562, 573, 596
Gordon, Max, 319
Gottlieb, Gertrude, 564
Grange, Red, 367, 580
Grant, Cary, 481
Grant, Jane, 685
Grant, Ulysses S., 503
Graves, Billy, 79, 87, 140, 461
Gray, Zane, 316
“Greatest Man in the World, The” (Thurber), 331-32, 356
Great Gatsby, The (Fitzgerald), 240, 694
Great Quillow, The (Thurber), 359-60, 642
Green, Elizabeth, JT letter to (1949), 473-74
Greenstein, Milton, 398-99
JT letter to (1961), 751-53
Grinnell College, 577
Gross, Milt, 142, 520
Grover, James, 226, 598
Guaranty Trust Company, 230, 291, 483, 510
Gude, Helen, 151, 159, 161, 202, 231, 687, 750, 754
JT letter to (1961), 750-51
Gude, Joe, 161
Gude, John G. (Jap), 9, 151, 159, 465, 639, 695-96, 706, 754
as agent for JT and E. B. White, 144, 160-61, 453
JT letters to (1947), 405, 410
JT letters to (1949), 452-53
JT letters to (1954), 615-16, 634-35
JT letters to (1961), 737-39, 750-51
social life with JT, 146
summer house on Martha's Vineyard, 201, 202, 213-14, 215-16
Gude, Johnny (godchild), 717
Gude, Liz, 399, 465
guns, 444, 493, 565, 611, 678, 693, 698
Hagen, Beulah, JT letter to (1957), 676-77
Hahn, Emily, 278
“Halberdier of the Little Rheinschloss” (O.Henry), 110-11
Hale, Edward Everett, 102
Halper, Albert, 177
Halsman, Philippe, 600-601
Hamilton, Hamish, 269, 649
Hammond, Percy, 87, 692
Hannibal route, 252, 271-72
Harcourt, Brace & Co., 337, 373-74, 483, 583, 585
Harding Ann, 296
Hare, Daisy, 266
Harley, Chic, 89-90, 535, 555
Harper & Brothers, 7, 236, 311, 312, 356, 358, 373-75, 394-95, 477-78, 483, 504, 509, 516-18, 545, 583, 676-77, 718
Harpers magazine, 205, 239-40, 302, 307, 322, 337, 362, 166-67, 463, 509, 703-4
Harriman, Margaret Case, 516-18
Harris, Frank, 745-46
Harris, Jed, 167, 527
Harrison, Charles Yale, 693
Harsha, Wayne, JT letter to (1946), 394
Hart, Moss, 656
Hartman, Lee, 323, 583
Harvester (Porter), 212
Hasdrubal, 272
Hauptmann, Bruno, 491
Le Havre (France), 37, 698
Hawley, Hudson, JT letter to (1954), 629-30
Hayes, Helen, 420, 516, 548, 628
Hays, Arthur Garfield, 339
Heart of Darkness (Conrad), 294
Hecht, Ben, 687, 692
Heinz, George Benholtz, 155
Heiress, The (James), 422, 442
Held, John, Jr., 142
Hellmann, Geoffrey, 169, 170
Hellmann, Lillian, 256, 268
Hemingway, Ernest, 177-78, 240, 256, 279, 280, 504-5, 506, 570, 608, 619, 620, 651, 723, 736
JT letter to (1961), 731-32
Hemingway, Mary, 570
Henderson, Robert, 626
JT letter to (1938), 283-84
Henry, Merwin, 78
Henry, O., 16, 56, 110, 168, 294
Hepburn, Katharine, 352
Herald Tribune Books, 470, 560
JT writes reviews for, 208-9
Herbet, C.W, 403
“Here Come the Tigers” (Thurber), 413
Hergesheimer, Joseph, 721
Herndon, 384
Hersey, John, 683, 736
Hicks, Granville, 211-13
Hill, A. P., 696
Hindenburg line, 29
Hinshaw, Cecil, 534
Hitler, Adolf, 251, 296, 348, 349, 402, 403
Hix, Theora, 492
Hokinson, Helen, 231, 271, 281, 282, 303, 349, 511
Holiday, 447-48, 591, 626, 630, 672, 679, 740-41
Holloway, Sterling, 300
Hollywood, Thurber trip to (1939), 7-8, 314-21
Holman, Libby, 631
Holtkamp, Bertha, 729
Homer, 711
Homer, Winslow, 353
Homestead, The, Hot Springs, Virginia, JT trips to, 8, 359-60, 367-68, 371, 372-75, 379-81, 385-87, 401-4, 416-18, 419-21, 465, 499, 573
homosexuality, 565, 692
Honeycutt, Ann, 3, 7, 295, 568, 646, 647, 658, 695
as assistant program producer at Columbia Broadcasting System, 103, 161-64
books of, 250, 301-2, 459, 466, 478, 562, 601-2
JT ambivalence toward, 495, 505, 557, 568, 581
JT and Laughing Lion Society Award for Humor, 456-58, 459
JT infatuation with, 103-7, 113-27, 130-31, 132, 135-40, 142-51, 154-64, 178-201, 598
JT letters to (1928-1930), 113-27
JT letters to (1931-1932), 103-7, 142-51, 154-64
JT letters to (1934-1935), 178-201
JT letters to (1938), 293-95
JT letters to (1949), 453-54, 456-58
JT letters to (1952), 562-63
JT letters to (1953), 593-94, 601-2
JT letters to (1959), 710
JT stay at sanitarium in Kerhonkson, New York (1935), 188-99
JT trashes apartment of, 142-44
meets JT, 103
as reference for JT, 418, 492
relationship with Ed Angly, 178, 181, 189, 195, 214-15
relationship with Willie Coleman, 193, 195, 198
relationship with St. Clair McKelway, 7, 199, 200, 214, 306-7, 466
summer house on Martha's Vineyard (1934), 178-87, 214-15
See also McKelway, Ann Honeycutt
honors and awards of JT. See awards and honors of JT
Hood, Robin, 306, 309, 352, 353, 685
Hooper, O. C, 102
Hoover, Herbert, 155, 548
Hopkins, Jean, 413
Horizon, 447
Houdini, Harry, 101-3, 479-81
House in Paris, The (Bowen), 401
“House in West 113th Street, The” (Thurber), 751-52
House is Not a Home, A (P. Adler), 564, 566-67, 568
Housman, A. E., 729, 735
Howard, Leslie, 312
Howard, Mildred, JT letter to (1946), 398
Howie, Kay, JT letter to (1955), 641-42
How to Raise a Dog in the Circus (Cooke), 311
How to Raise a Dog (Kinney and McKelway), 301-2, 562, 601
Humanism, 174, 224
humor
decline of, 722-23, 724-25, 744, 762
JT predictions for, 710, 722-23
in love, sex, and marriage, 720
New Comedians and, 734
politics and, 713
Huneker, James, 419
Hunter, Roland, 28
Husing, Ted, 163
Huston, John, 737-38
Huston, Walter, 631
Hutchins, Robert M., 389
Hyde, Fillmore, 278
Ile de la Cité (Paris), 63
Ingersoll, Ralph, 169, 348, 350, 352-53, 378, 414, 499, 692
JT letter to (1957), 681
Ingram, William, JT letter to (1952), 577
inspirational books, 228
“Intelligent Woman” (Thurber), 236-37
“Interview, The” (Thurber), 485
“In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree” (song), 264
Irvin, Rae, 237, 433, 569
Irving, Washington, 94, 95
Is Sex Necessary? (Thurber and E. B. White), 7, 127, 128, 130, 134, 142, 210, 236, 304, 347-51, 375, 380, 414-15, 477-78, 519, 583
“Ivory, Apes and People” (Thurber), 648-49, 674
“Ivory Apes and Peacocks” (Huneker), 419
Jackson, Andrew, 605
Jackson, Charles, 405
Jackson, Ray, 87
Jackson, Stonewall, 696, 697
jai-alai, 149
James, Henry, 5, 33, 55, 58-59, 60-61, 89-90, 155, 240, 279, 330, 360, 422, 427, 428, 435, 447, 453, 461, 498, 501, 502, 609, 654, 691, 705-6, 721, 742
works of, 57, 59, 208, 212, 433, 505-6, 526, 535, 703, 711
James Thurber: His Life and Times (Kinney), 1, 442
“Java Jive, The” (song), 433, 435
Jeanne of Arc, 36
Jeannie (Thurber dog), 108, 109-10, 112, 122, 123, 141
Jenkins, Albery, 737-39
Jenkins, Ann, 737
Jester Award for Humor, 454-59, 745
Jett, Garfield, 368-69
Johnson, Alva, 232
Johnson, Andy, 727
Johnson, Dorris, JT letter to (1961), 755
Johnson, Jack, 737
Johnson, Nunnally, 250, 384, 708, 738, 751
JT letter to (1961), 755
Johnston, Alva, 688
Johnston, Joseph E., 271-72
Jolas, Eugene, 617-18, 629
Jolly Corner, The (James), 59, 526
Jolson, Al, 45, 64
Jonsson, Ebba, 421-22
Jordan, Sarah, 731
Josephson, Mathew, 159
Joulon, France, JT visits, 264
Joyce, James, 609
Judd, Winnie Ruth, 146
Julius Caesar, 266, 271, 738
Jung, C. G., 620
Kahn, Otto H., 285
Kahn, Ruby, 738
Karloff, Boris, 397
Kaufman, Beatrice, 691
Kaufman, George, 227, 480, 556, 755
Kaye, Danny, 383, 387, 388, 397, 481, 709
Kellar, Harry, 101-2
Keller, Ed, 432, 433
Kelly, Colin, 402
Kempy (Nugent family with Russel Crouse), 84-85, 87-88
Kennedy, John E, 745, 748
Kennedy, Madge, 349
Kenyon College, JT honorary doctorate from, 9, 490, 541, 592
Kerrigen, J. Warren, 478
Key, Philip Barton, 102
Kilbane, Johnny, 596
King, Alexander, 514
King, Eugene, JT letter to (1958), 698-99
Kinkead, Eugene, 167-72, 221
Kinney, Harrison, 442-44
JT letters to (1951), 529-30
JT letters to (1952), 570-71
Kinney, James R., 301-2, 562, 601
Kipling, Rudyard, 64, 658
Knapp, Arnold, 338
Knapp, Clarence, JT letter to (1945), 377
Kober, Arthur, 717
Korda, Alexander, 241, 734
Kramer, Dale
JT letters to (1950), 498-99
JT letters to (1951), 507-14
Ross and The New Yorker, 498-99, 507-14, 515, 523, 544, 682
Kramer, Stanley, 616
Krutch, Joseph Wood, 551, 755
Ladies' Home Journal, 456, 500-501, 717
La Farge, Christopher, 362
La Fontaine, Jean, 645-46, 650
Lagoon, Bert, 254
LaGuardia, Fiorello, 501
Lamarr, Hedy, 671
Lancet, 562-63, 748
Landeck, Armin, 475, 527, 632-33, 636
Langner, 657
Lantern, The (O.S.U. campus newspaper), 5,132
Lanterns and Lances (Thurber), 718
Lardner, Dave, 661
Lardner, Jim, 268
Lardner, Ring, 174, 176, 177, 326-27, 410
“Last Clock, The” (Thurber), 702-3
Last Flower, The (Thurber), 7, 322, 389, 445, 715, 720, 722
“Last Roses” (Thurber poem), 75
Last Tycoon, The (Fitzgerald), 506-7, 620
Latin Quarter (Paris), 43, 63
Laughing Lion Society Award for Humor, 454-59, 745
Laughton, Charles, 241, 243, 389
“Lavender With A Difference” (Thurber), 522
Lavery, Emmet, 549-50
Lawes, Lewis E., 101
Lawrence, D. H., 619, 742
League of American Writers, 432
Lee, Gladys, 143
Lee, Norma, 83
See also Nugent, Norma Lee
Lee, Ray, 83, 525
Lee, Robert E., 271-72, 696-97
Le Figaro, 629
Legion of Honor, 510-11
Leigh, Vivien, 317
Leonard, Baird, 413, 414
Letters of a Self-Made Diplomat to His President (Rogers), 713
Let Your Mind Alone! (Thurber), 209, 261-62
Leviathan (tea and coal boat), 93, 95
Levick, Bill, 348, 349, 379
Lewis, Lloyd, 165
Lewis, Sinclair, 219, 506, 637, 640-41
Lewisohn, Ludwig, 86-87, 90
Liberty, 153, 337
Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.), 15, 101
Lie, Jonas, 142, 520
Liebling, Joe, 499, 688
Lifelong Reading Plan, A (Fadiman), 748
Life magazine, 296, 322, 388, 392, 411
Lincoln, Abraham, 15, 64, 83, 378, 552, 553, 686, 697
Lincoln, Victoria, 406, 407
Lindbergh, Charles, 348, 354
Lindsay, Vachel, 238-39
Lippmann, Walter, 249-50, 348
Literary Guild, 262, 314
literary left, 172-78, 211-13
Little, Brown, 542, 688
Living Philosophies (Fadiman), 275
Livy, 254
Lobrano, Gus, 275, 296, 364, 414, 433, 515, 566, 574, 626
death of, 9, 742-43, 752
JT letters to (1938), 302-3
JT letters to (1939), 315-16, 320-21
JT letters to (1943), 359-60
JT letters to (1946), 406-7
JT letters to (1949), 451-52, 467-68
JT letters to (1950), 482-84, 485, 498
JT letters to (1952), 549-50
JT letters to (1954), 616-17
JT letters to (1955), 643
as reference for JT, 492
rewriting/editing of, 331, 672
The Years with Ross (Thurber) and, 740
“Loch Lomond” (song), 263, 264
Loch Ness monster, 672, 679, 708
Lockridge, Richard, 279
London, JT visits, 241, 247-54, 299, 300-301, 521-22, 714, 733-43, 749-55
London Observer, The, 709
London Sunday Times, 709
Long, Huey, 198, 737
Long, Lois, 305, 511
Longstreet, General, 697-98
Lord, Russell, 515, 610
Lord Jim (Conrad), 723-24, 733
Louvre (Paris), 33, 63
Lovett, Adele, 167
Lowell, James Russell, 102
Luce, Henry, 284, 509, 515, 518, 692
Luckman, Sid, 272
lutte, as term, 273
Luxembourg Gardens (Paris), 28, 63
Lyons, Leonard, 518
MacArthur, Charles, 420, 465, 516, 628, 687, 755
“Macbeth Murder Mystery, The” (Thurber), 693
Macdonald, Dwight, 751
MacDonald, Goodridge, JT letter to (1961), 736-37
MacLean, Kenneth, 488
JT letter to (1953), 590-91
MacNamara, 339
Mademoiselle, 360
Male Animal, The (Thurber and E. Nugent), 3, 7-8, 314-21, 323-26, 329, 340, 342, 352, 431, 432, 466, 483, 489, 502, 527, 541, 616-17, 626, 715, 719, 720, 729
on Broadway, 546, 551-52, 557, 560, 564, 573
movie rights to, 657
notices in The New Yorker, 564
television rights to, 709
Mally, Louise, JT letter to (1954), 609
Maloney, Russell, 168, 169, 170, 285, 300, 304, 676-77
Maney, Richard, 301, 490, 684
JT letters to (1953), 597-98
JT letters to (1956), 654-55
Mann, Thomas, 619
“Man Who Hated Moonbaum, The” (Thurber), 315-16
“Man With a Rose” (Thurber), 502
Many Moons, 355, 356, 416-17, 642
Many Moons (college musical, book by Thurber), 87
March, William, 240, 618
Margaret (Thurber cook), 306
Marinoff, Fanny (Mrs. Carl Van Vechtin), 520
Marius, E. L., 226
Markey, Helen, 493, 627
Markey, Morris, 147, 200-201, 214, 220, 268, 348, 480, 485, 492, 493, 511, 533, 566, 594, 618, 639, 687, 690
Markey, Sue, 699-700
Marlowe, Julia, 202, 671
Marquand, J. P., 452, 453
marriage, JT on, 574-76, 578, 580-82
Marseilles, France, JT visits, 264
Martha's Vineyard
JT summer house with Ann Honeycutt and Edward Angly (1934), 178-87, 214-15
JT summer house with wife, Helen (1935), 201-3, 213-16
JT visits, 227, 335, 338-41, 631, 632
