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...conference, which is sponsored by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Wellesley, and M.I.T., opened yesterday with a dinner at the Algonquin Club. Delegates from 33 colleges are attending...
...Army's Stars & Stripes, on a staff that included Woollcott, Franklin P. Adams and Grantland Rice. After the war, they forgathered in New York, where their friendship continued at poker parties of the Thanatopsis Literary & Inside Straight Club and at the famed Round Table of wits in the Algonquin...
During wassail, Thurber's ambivalence can snap loose and he may be given to bursts of hooting & hollering. A New Yorker editor once returned to the office after a stormy evening at the Algonquin Hotel and thoughtfully announced, "Thurber is the greatest guy in the world up to 5 p.m." Those who love Thurber ascribe such outbursts to old-fashioned artistic temperament and simply shrug them off. They know that when real troubles arise, there is nobody more steadfast and generous. The jams he has helped and comforted friends through are without number...
...Vicious Circle, by Margaret Case Harriman. A lighthearted anecdotal roundup about the bright bunch that met at the Algonquin in the '20s and '30s for food, talk and character assassination (TIME, March...
...Vicious Circle, by Margaret Case Harriman. A lighthearted anecdotal roundup about the bright bunch that met at the Algonquin in the '20s and '30s for food, talk and character assassination (TIME, March...