KimC,

Mr. Nash was one, Mr. Guest, too. I'll have to think a bit to remember the others. I often regret that there seems to be no place for them in the contemporary Literature. I think that I would have enjoyed your little opus even more if I'd discovered it in a magazine somewhere and been able to attached it to my refrigerator or the old cork bulletin board in my office for idlers to read. I suppose I could print it out, but a printout just isn't the same as a clipping, and everyone seems in such a hurry these days that they wouldn't read it anyway.
Presumably, Mr. Stribling was a humorous writer--on your advice, I'll look him up, he sounds great.