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Mr. Humor

Stewart, Donald Ogden | October 16, 1954 issue

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The article focuses on the book "The Benchley Roundup," by Nathaniel Benchley. Benchley was humor. Benchley's writings were only one of the outward and visible evidences of the inner grace, the divine essence. But one must not make the mistake of considering humor as a sort of electric heater which one plugs in when one needs the illusion of warmth and happiness in the best of all possible worlds. Benchley did give out a radiant glow; his friends and his millions of readers did warm themselves and feel better because of his presence.

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BENCHLEY Roundup, The (Book); BOOKS; BENCHLEY, Nathaniel; AUTHORS; WIT & humor; LAUGHTER
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