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Died. Ringgold Wilmer ("Ring") Lardner, 48, fictionist, playwright, sportswriter; of heart disease and tuberculosis; in "No Visitors, N.Y.," his home at East Hampton, L. I. Born in Niles, Mich., packed off to engineering college by his parents, he failed every course but rhetoric, did no better as a freight agent and gas company clerk, much better as a baseball reporter. After Satevepost readers had long guffawed over the frothy imbecilities of his "You Know Me Al" stories, highbrow critics discovered in him a painstaking artist with a phonographic ear for U. S. folk speech, in his enameled tales a gentle...
Died. William Wallace Cook, 66, prolific fictionist, called "the man who deforested Canada" because of the avalanche of stories he fed into the pulp-magazine mill; after long illness; in Marshall, Mich. In 1916 as "Burt L. Standish" he took over the famed Frank Merriwell series created years before by William Gilbert Patten, kept it going a few years more. In 1927 he published "Plotto," an inexhaustible mine of skeleton plots for authors-in-a-hurry...
...HIDDEN DOOR-Frank L. Packard -Crime Club ($2). A detective fictionist searches the underworld to find who killed his gangland schoolmate...
Crook" by James R. Crowell, "pulp" fictionist, in which were recounted the exploits of Mr. Woodward, the sometime Senator Musgrave, also known as "Big Bill Hawley" and "The Old Boy Himself." Last week the Old Boy, 71, sued Mr. Crowell. He asked the New Jersey Supreme Court to award him $15,000. He claimed he had made an agreement whereby he was to receive one-third of the price paid for his memoirs; Mr. Crowell was to get two-thirds for rewriting them and arranging their publication. Said he: "I asked for an accounting, and I did not get even...
Rogue & Gull. With a tale of having flown for the British Royal Flying Corps in Italy and of being a Carter of Cartersville, Ky., one Robert A. Carter, 32, intriguing fictionist, became managing editor of John B. Kelly's air-fiction magazine Wings. He "wrote" good stories which Mr. Kelly gladly published. But one was a word-for-word steal from another "air" magazine, Air Trails, whose publisher complained. Last week roguish Mr. Carter was in jail for confessed fraud...