Books: Rethurberations

LANTERNS AND LANCES (215 pp.)—James Thurber—Harper ($3.95).

TONGUE TWISTER: We supply wristwatches for witchwatchers watching witches Washington wishes watched.

RIDDLE : What English word contains all five vowels in order? The answer is probably facetious.

PUN : More fun than a barrel of money.

PALINDROMES: A man, a plan, a canal, Panama; Piel's lager on red rum did murder no regal sleep.

At 66, James Thurber has become (he should excuse the expression) a senior humorist, but in this lively collection of recent rethurberations in The New Yorker and other magazines, he shows no evidence...

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