TY - BOOK AU - Vinciguerra,Thomas J. TI - Cast of characters: Wolcott Gibbs, E. B. White, James Thurber, and the golden age of the New Yorker SN - 9780393353532 AV - PN 4900 V777c 2015 U1 - 051 PY - 2015///.] CY - New York PB - W. W. Norton & Company KW - Gibbs, Wolcott, KW - White, E. B. KW - Thurber, James, KW - New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925) KW - History KW - Periodicals KW - Publishing KW - New York (State) KW - New York KW - 20th century N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; A Christmas greeting to The New Yorkers" ; "Either competent or horrible" ; "A ludicrous pastime" ; "Infatuation with pinheads" ; "Boy, do I like to handle authors!" ; "Most insanely miscast" ; "An offense to the ear" ; "Pretty gummy at best" ; "A silly occupation for a grown man" ; "I am a child of the sun" ; "Always poison" ; "Flying high and fast" ; "The moral climate is against it" ; "A lot of suicidal enterprises" ; "Whose days, in any case, were numbered." ER -