Though he reached the ripe old age of 75, S.J. Perelman never burdened his readers with anything like a magnum opus. There is no solo-penned novel in the Perelman bibliography, and though he was a ...

S.J. Perelman rightly belongs on the Mount Rushmore of American humorists. Like many writers of his day, Perelman supported himself in Hollywood—he wrote two screenplays for the Marx Brothers and won ...

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WESTWARD HA! (159 pp.)—S. J. Perelman & Albert Hirschfeld—Simon & Schuster ($2.95). Perelman was just leaving a little specialty shop in the Forties (he had been buying “a black girdle with rose ...

ACRES AND PAINS (126 pp.)—S. J. Perelman—Reynal & Hitchcock ($2). The auctioneer’s voice boomed out the cow’s pedigree: “ZangwilPs Bijou Lass, the daughter of Throaty Contralto by that great sire ...

Employing the wit of the legendary humorist and cartoonist S. J. Perelman, originally a member of the class of 1925, Sean Kelly ’84 expounded on his film “The Sophisticated Silliness of S. J. Perelman ...

Standing against this onslaught of verbosity is the example of American humorist Sidney Joseph Perelman (1904-1979), whose bracingly brief comic sketches enlivened countless issues of the magazines ...