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Unhappy Tourist. Moss Hart persuaded Lazar to become an independent agent soon after the war. Swiftly, his list grew until it included George S. Kaufman. Herman Wouk, S. N. Behrman, Johnny Mercer, Ira Gershwin, Frank Loesser, George Cukor. And as his personal legend developed, Lazar found himself caricatured in the work of his clients: Hart lampooned him gently, and George Axelrod mortalized his little friend as Irving ("Sneaky") LaSalle, the Hollywood literary agent in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter...
...Pulitzer Prize picture of six marines planting the Stars and Stripes on the summit of Mount Suribachi, the highest point on Iwo Jima. Three of the marines were later killed on Iwo; the three who survived became national heroes. But one of the survivors, a Pima Indian named Ira Hayes, was killed by that snapshot as surely, if not as swiftly, as by a bullet...
Summoned home by a grateful government, Ira and his buddies were met with brass bands, bronze stars, microphones and cocktail shakers. They were thanked in person by President Roosevelt and hustled off on a coast-to-coast tour of war-bond rallies. Unhappily, all the attention was too much for Ira. a nice simple country boy of 22. He began to hit the bottle and hit it hard. After the war, he kept right on drinking; in 13 years he was arrested 51 times for being drunk and disorderly. He lost job after job, wound up on Chicago...
...CHEMICALS : Du Pont Economist Ira T. Ellis predicted a 10% production increase...
Before leaving for Rome, though, Ohiri had competed unofficially with Ghana, Sierra Leone, and the U.S. He jumped 60 ft. to defeat U.S. Olympian Ira Davis in the hop, step, and jump...