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Gobucks89, Thurber was much more than a "cartoonist"!
Drawing cartoons was only a secondary occupation.
He was first and foremost a writer.

The 13 Clocks - Page 11
[SIZE=-1]by James Thurber - 1950[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]... James Thurber ...[/SIZE]
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The Dog Department: James Thurber on Hounds, Scotties, and Talking Poodles
[SIZE=-1]by James Thurber, Michael J. Rosen - 2001 - 304 pages[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Flere is James Thurber, arguably the greatest ... as “Emily Post” md “Etiquette”), [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]along with unpublished material mm the Thurber archives, a great sheaf of ...[/SIZE]
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My Life and Hard Times
[SIZE=-1]by James Thurber - 1999 - 128 pages[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]In 1989, I undertook the editing of uncollected writings and drawings, subsequently [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]published as Collecting Himself James Thurber on Writing and Writers, ...[/SIZE]
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Many Moons - Page 6
[SIZE=-1]by James Thurber - 1943[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]COPYRIGHT, 1943, BY JAMES THURBER AH rights reserved, including the right to [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form. ...[/SIZE]
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The Years with Ross
[SIZE=-1]by James Thurber - 2001 - 336 pages[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Foreword to the Perennial Classics Edition James Thurber wrote The Years with [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Ross toward the end of his most productive and gifted period, and he managed ...[/SIZE]
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How could you guys forget...

Halle Maria Berry (born August 14, 1966[1]) is an Emmy, Golden Globe, and Academy Award-winning American actress and former fashion model and beauty queen. Berry was awarded the Best Actress Academy Award in 2002 for her performance in Monster's Ball, and is the only woman of African American descent to have won the Academy Award for Best Actress. . . . Berry was a popular student at Bedford High School and was a cheerleader, honor society member, editor of the school newspaper, class president and prom queen. She worked in the children's department at Higbee's Department store. She subsequently attended Cuyahoga Community College.
 
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Paul Leonard Newman (born January 26, 1925) is an iconic, Academy Award, Golden Globe, Cannes Award, and Emmy Award-winning American actor and film director. He is the founder of Newman's Own, a food company of which all profits and royalties are donated to charity.[1] As of 2006, these donations exceeded $200 million USD. . . .Newman was born in Shaker Heights, Ohio, near Cleveland, and prior to entering the service, he attended Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, where he was initiated into the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity. He completed his degree at Kenyon College after the war and later studied acting at Yale University.[4]
 
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Taosman;804456; said:
Gobucks89, Thurber was much more than a "cartoonist"!
Drawing cartoons was only a secondary occupation.
He was first and foremost a writer.
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I know. I read several of his stories in school. I was just trying to make a good transition to one of my favorites. :biggrin:
 
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Annie Oakley (August 13, 1860 ? November 3, 1926) b. Phoebe Ann Mosey[1] was a United States sharpshooter and exhibition shooter. Oakley's amazing talent and luck led to a starring role in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, which propelled her to become the first American female superstar. Using a .22 caliber rifle at 90 feet (27 m), Oakley could split a playing card edge-on and put five or six more holes in it before it touched the ground. [2]
According to the Annie Oakley Foundation, Annie Oakley was born in "a cabin less than 2 miles northwest of Woodland, now Willowdell, in Darke County, Ohio."[3] North Star, a few miles away, has a plaque claiming it to be her town of birth. [4],
 
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And another cartoonist...

William B. "Bill" Watterson II (born 1958) is the author of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes and a few poems (which are mostly embedded in his works). Watterson was born in Washington, D.C., where his father, James G. Watterson (1932?), worked as a patent examiner while going to law school, before becoming a patent attorney in 1960. The family moved to Chagrin Falls, Ohio when Bill was six years old where his mother Kathryn became a city council member. , Watterson graduated from Kenyon College in Gambier with a degree in political science.
 
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Can't forget this guy.
Eddie Rickenbacker (October 8, 1890 ? July 27, 1973) was best known as a World War I fighter ace and Medal of Honor recipient. He was also a race car driver and automotive designer, a government consultant in military matters and a pioneer in air transportation. During his lifetime, Rickenbacker worked with many influential civilian and military leaders. He had keen insight into technology, and vision for future improvements. Among other events, he participated in or observed Armistice Day on the Western Front and the Hindenburg explosion.
Edward Vernon Rickenbacher was born in Columbus, Ohio, to German-speaking Swiss immigrants. During World War I, he changed the "h" in his last name to "k" in an effort to "take the Hun out of his name." As he was already well known at the time, the change received wide publicity. "From then on", as he wrote in his autobiography, "most Rickenbachers were practically forced to spell their name in the way I had..." [1] He started using the name "Vernon" as a middle name because he believed his given name "looked a little plain." He was primarily concerned with what his new middle initial would be. After settling upon "V", he selected "Vernon" as a middle initial name. [2]
From childhood, Eddie Rickenbacker loved machines and experimented with them, encouraged by his father's words "A machine has to have a purpose" [3].
When Eddie Rickenbacker's father, William Rickenbacher, was killed at a construction site in 1904, young Eddie chose to quit school at age 13 to support his mother and siblings. He turned to trade work, first as a night-shift glazer and then later as a worker in a steel mill.
 
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Thurber on Columbus...
"I have lived in the East for nearly thirty years now, but many of my books prove that I am never very far away from Ohio in my thoughts, and that the clocks that strike in my dreams are often the clocks of Columbus."

"Columbus is a town in which almost anything is likely to happen, and in which almost everything has."
 
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