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...wrote Grantland Rice in 1951, when Promoter Bill Veeck bought the hapless St. Louis Browns, a team that had crept out of the American League's second division only eleven times in 47 years. "Many critics were surprised to know the Browns could be bought," added John Lardner, "because they didn't know that the Browns were owned." That quickly changed: everybody always knew what Bill Veeck was doing, even if they rarely knew why. For 15 years, as owner of first the Cleveland Indians, then the Browns and finally the Chicago White Sox, William Louis Veeck...
Shut Up, He Explained, selections from Ring Lardner edited by Babette Rosmond and Henry Morgan. A justly famous U.S. satiric wit happily revisited...
Shut Up, He Explained, selections from Ring Lardner, edited by Babette Rosmond and Henry Morgan. A justly famous U.S. satiric wit happily revisited...
...many ways, Shut Up, He Explained is a curious book. For a generation to which Lardner is largely a distant figure of the 1920s (he died in 1933), familiar chiefly through textbooks and a few anthologies, it does not do full justice to the lasting appeal of the great American humorist. Nor is it likely to satisfy the Lardner buff (there are still a great many), who likes to sample his Lardneriana over the wide range offered by a box of Mother's Day chocolates. When Lardner was good, he was very, very good; when...
Tootle & Twang. The publication in the 1920s of such nonsense "plays" as Lardner's Clemo Uti-"The Water Lilies" and I Gaspiri (The Upholsterers) perhaps marked the literary debut of the New Lunacy. Hailed in some quarters as offshoots of Dada and in others as potshots at it, they helped form the Krazy Katechism of the era. With the mere setting of the scene in Clemo Uti-"the Outskirts of a Parchesi Board"-there sounded a note that would tootle and twang and echo from Perelman to Mad Magazine; it was there, too, in the very first lines...