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- ↑ Thurber, James (1935-11-16). "A Couple of Hamburgers". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X . Retrieved 2016-01-27.
- ↑ Yagoda, Ben (1995-12-10). "His Life and Hard Times". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2016-01-27.
- ↑ Neil A. Grauer (1995). Remember Laughter: A Life of James Thurber. U of Nebraska Press. pp. 57–59. ISBN 0-8032-7056-9.
- ↑ Sean Zwagerman (2010). Wit's End: Women's Humor as Rhetorical and Performative Strategy. University of Pittsburgh Press. pp. 102–104. ISBN 978-0-8229-7377-5.
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