Backward ran Sentences : : the Best of Wolcott Gibbs From The New Yorker

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Foreword: the top ten reasons why we should still read Wolcott Gibbs (and the top ten reasons why we don't anymore) / by P.J. O'Rourke -- Introduction / by Thomas Vinciguerra -- Editorial WE: "Notes and Comment" and "Talk of the town"
Some matters of fact: Profiles Up from Amherst -- Diamond Gardenia (I and II) -- Lady of the cats -- Big Nemo -- St. George and the dragnet -- Customer is always wrong -- A very active type man (I and II) -- Little sureshot.
They write as I please: Parodies Boo, Beau! -- Spinster -- Hanover-on-Hudson -- Edward Damper -- Death in the rumble seat -- Primo, my puss -- Time...fortune...life...Luce -- Future conditional -- Shakespeare, here's your hat -- Shad ampersand -- To a little girl at Christmas.
Some troubles I've seen: Casuals Story of the Bible in tabloid -- On working that line into conversation -- Man and the myth -- Answers-to-hard-questions-department -- Simpson -- Lunch with a ripsaw -- Outwitting the lightning -- A man may be down -- Wit's end -- Mars -- Eden with serpents -- Huntress -- Wafers are exploded -- Ring out, wild bells -- Beauty and Gutzon Borglum -- A fellow of infinite jest.
So-so stories: Short stories Courtship of Milton Baker -- Some of the nicest guys you ever saw -- Mr. Jermyn's lovely night -- No room in the inn -- Dark cloud in the sky -- Song at Twilight -- Love, love, love -- Celebrity -- Foreign population -- Cat on the roof -- Crusoe's footprint -- Curious incident of the dogs in the night time -- Life and death and life of George Whitehouse -- Crusaders
Wounds & Decorations: Theater and film criticism What hath God wrought? (Ah, wilderness!) -- Miss Nichols and the Demuiga (Abie's Irish rose) -- Katzenjammer kids in Washington (Washington jitters) -- Nice people (Kiss the boys goodbye) -- Night at Nick's (Time of your life) -- Father on Broadway (Life with father) -- A star-crossed revival (Romeo and Juliet) -- Well, I give up (Beautiful people) -- Resurrection man (Blithe spirit) -- Mantle of mantle -- With thanks (Oklahoma!) -- Black majesty (Othello) -- Such nice people (Glass menagerie) -- Boys in the backroom (Iceman cometh; Cyrano de Bergerac) -- Cathecism (Little A) -- Lower depths, Southern style (A streetcar named desire) -- Well worth waiting for (Death of a salesman) -- What a wonderful war (South Pacific) -- Brook and river (Member of the wedding) -- Eliot & others (Cocktail party) -- Bouquets, brickbats & obituaries (Guys and dolls) -- There's always Rodgers & Hammerstein (Me and Juliet) -- Something to remember us by (Cat on a hot tin roof) -- Mixed bag (Inherit the wind) -- Twenty-two actors in search of Pirandello (Six characters in search of an author) -- Shaw with music (My fair lady) -- Enough is enough is enough (Waiting for Godot) -- Doom (Long day's journey into night) -- Out of nowhere (A visit to a small planet; my fair lady) -- Hoodlums & heiresses (West Side story) -- Dimmest view (Entertainer) -- Triple-threat man (Music man) -- Curtain calls (Miscellany of critical jottings) -- from Schoolmaster Jannings: radio announcers, portias, and flagpole-sitters (Blue Angel) -- Foolish but fun (National velvet) -- What hath Walt wrought? (Three Caballeros) -- Best-seller (A tree grows in Brooklyn; Here come the coeds).
Thoughts on infinity: personal and professional essays Little Nemo and the cardboard lion -- What every boy should know -- A primer for critics -- Kingdom of the blind -- Robert Benchley: in memoriam -- Secret life of myself -- One up, one down -- In defense of dermathermy -- "Non-graduates, we are gathered here..." -- Stuff and nonsense, Mr. C.
Coda Theory and practice of editing New Yorker articles.

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