Bennett Cerf’s Houseful of Laughter ed. Bennett Cerf (Random House, 1963, 182 + viiipp, hc, an)
Illustrations throughout by Arnold Roth.
Details supplied by Todd Mason.
- vii · Foreword · Bennett Cerf · fw
- 3 · It All Started with Columbus · Richard Armour · ex (r)
from It All Started with Columbus, humor.
- 18 · The Fifty-First Dragon · Heywood Broun · ss New-York Tribune April 13 1919
- 28 · The Story of Chicken Little · Walt Kelly · cs (r)
- 38 · The Little Girl and the Wolf · James Thurber · vi The New Yorker January 21 1939
- 40 · The Ransom of Red Chief · O. Henry · ss The Saturday Evening Post July 6 1907
- 53 · Riddle-de-Dee · Bennett Cerf · ms (r)
riddles retold.
- 57 · How Beautiful with Mud · Hildegarde Dolson · ex (r)
from We Shook the Family Tree, memoir.
- 66 · The Affair at 7, Rue de M— · John Steinbeck · ss Harper’s Bazaar April 1955
- 76 · Father Opens My Mail · Clarence Day · ss The New Yorker May 5 1934
- 83 · Child’s Play: A Selection of Anecdotes (as told to Bennett Cerf) · Bennett Cerf · hu (r)
from Try and Stop Me and other Cerf anecdote collections.
- 92 · How We Kept Mother’s Day · Stephen Leacock · vi Laugh with Leacock by Stephen Leacock, Dodd, Mead and Co., 1930
- 97 · Your Boy and His Dog · Robert Benchley · es Liberty July 30 1932
- 101 · The Rich Sardine · Roger Price · ct (r)
cartoons with explication.
- 107 · Tom’s Whitewash · Mark Twain · ex (r)
from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
- 113 · Pay the Two Francs · Art Buchwald · hu (r)
- 117 · Learning to Drive · Billy Rose · ex (r)
from Wine, Women and Song.
- 120 · A Turn for the Verse
- _120 · The Purple Cow · Gelett Burgess · pm (r)
- _120 · O I C · [uncredited] · pm (r)
- _121 · The Little Man Who Wasn’t There · Hughes Mearns · pm (r)
- _121 · Miniature · Richard Armour · pm Collier’s May 7 1949
- _122 · Infant Prodigy · Margaret Fishback · pm (r)
- _122 · Note to a Persistent Pest · “Groucho” Marx · pm (r)
- _123 · Habits of the Hippopotamus · Arthur Guiterman · pm (r)
- _124 · How to Tell the Wild Animals · Carolyn Wells · pm (r)
- _126 · Eletelephony · Laura E. Richards · pm (r)
- _127 · Poems in Praise of Practically Nothing · Samuel Hoffenstein · pm (r)
- _128 · Father William [Alice] · Lewis Carroll · ex from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Macmillan, 1865
- _129 · Song of the Pop-Bottlers · Morris Bishop · pm (r)
- 130 · Six Poems by Ogden Nash
- _130 · Reflections on Babies · Ogden Nash · pm The Face Is Familiar by Ogden Nash, Little, Brown, 1940
- _130 · Song of the Open Road · Ogden Nash · pm The New Yorker October 15 1932
- _130 · The Eel · Ogden Nash · pm The New Yorker August 30 1941
- _130 · The Lama · Ogden Nash · pm The New Yorker April 4 1931
- _131 · The Fly · Ogden Nash · pm The New Yorker January 3 1942
- _131 · The Termite · Ogden Nash · pm Good Intentions by Ogden Nash, Little, Brown and Company, 1942
- 132 · Little Willie Poems
- _132 · [untitled poem] · Charles H. Clark · pm (r)
- _132 · [six untitled short poems] · adapted by Bennett Cerf · pm (r)
- 133 · Two-Liners
- _133 · On the Antiquity of Fleas · Strickland Gillilan · pm (r)
- _133 · Maid’s Day Out · William Benét · pm (r)
- _133 · untitled (“Last night at twelve I felt immense/But now I feel like thirty cents”) · George Ade · pm (r)
- _134 · [untitled poem] · Richard Armour · pm (r)
- _134 · [four two-line untitled poems] · adapted by Bennett Cerf · pm (r)
- 134 · Out on a Limerick
from Out on a Limerick, edited by Bennett Cerf.
- _134 · [twenty untitled limericks] · adapted by Bennett Cerf · pm (r)
- _135 · untitled limerick (“I wish my room had a floor;”…) · Gelett Burgess · pm (r)
- _135 · untitled limerick (“There was an old man in a boat,”…) · Edward Lear · pm (r)
- _135 · untitled limerick (“As a beauty I am not a star.”…) · Woodrow Wilson · pm (r)
- _136 · untitled limerick (“I’d rather have fingers than toes;”…) · Gelett Burgess · pm (r)
- _138 · untitled limerick (“When twins came, their father, Dan Dunn,”…) · Berton Braley · pm (r)
- _139 · untitled limerick (“A tutor who tooted a flute”…) · Carolyn Wells · pm (r)
- 140 · The Word Market · Norton Juster · ex from The Phantom Tollbooth, Epstein & Carroll, 1961
- 153 · The Night the Bed Fell · James Thurber · ss The New Yorker July 8 1933
- 159 · The Face Is Familiar But— · Max Schulman · ex (r)
from The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, novel, Random House 1945.
- 172 · Practice Mission · Mac Hyman · ex (r)
from No Time for Sergeants, novel, 1954.
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