Books: Sincerely Yours

THE THURBER ALBUM (346 pp.)—James Thurber—Simon & Schuster ($3.50).

The main thing about James Thurber of Columbus, Ohio is that his parents were people, and that Thurber grasped this unsettling fact quite early in life. Take his father, a man who "could rarely get the top off anything . . . was forever trying to unlock something with the key to something else." How could Thurber, or any kid, ever forget that his dad, wearing a derby hat, tried to repair the lock to the rabbit hutch, and "succeeded only after getting inside the cage, where he was imprisoned for three hours...

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