Witchflower Days: Walter Mitty, A One-Shot Wonder, A Writer's Quest, End of the Beatles

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Wednesday, December 8, 2004

Walter Mitty, A One-Shot Wonder, A Writer's Quest, End of the Beatles

Birthday of the great humorist James Thurber, born in Columbus, OH (1894). He began submitting humor pieces to New Yorker magazine in 1926, when the magazine was around a year old. He said, "My pieces came back so fast I began to believe the New Yorker must have a rejection machine." He eventually... Sign in to see full entry.

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