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...Yorker last week appeared the first report from the German front by its sports and cinema writer turned war correspondent, tall, young (25), quiet-voiced David Lardner. His story was a factual, homey piece about life in liberated Luxembourg. Two days after publication came news that Lardner, leaving conquered Aachen in a jeep, had run into a minefield. He was the 20th U.S. correspondent killed in World...
David was the youngest of the four sons of the late great Ringgold Wilmer (Ring) Lardner. Each had carried on in his father's field. John, the eldest, Newsweek's able war correspondent in Africa and Europe, is temporarily writing the New Yorker's cinema reviews. Ringgold Jr. is a Hollywood scenarist (Woman of the Year). James, the third son, went to Spain during the civil war as a New York Herald Tribune reporter, joined the Loyalists' International Brigade, was killed in battle...
...ballroom, generations of clerks, shopgirls and other widely assorted humans have shuffled and spun to tunes from Pretty Baby to People Will Say We're in Love, Some danced with partners they brought, others with Roseland's mannerly hostesses. Stories about Roseland have been written by Ring Lardner, Sherwood Anderson, F. Scott Fitzgerald and John O'Hara. Millionaires have married Roseland hostesses, and superannuated dervishes have dropped dead on its dance floor...
...Pilgrim's Progress, Lewis Carroll's Collected Stories, The Origin of Species, E. M. Forster's A Passage to India, Fourteen Great Detective Stories, Anatole France's Penguin Island, Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, Odyssey, William James's The Varieties of Religious Experience, Ring Lardner's Collected Short Stories, The Philosophy of Plato, Alfred North Whitehead's Introduction to Mathematics. Not included: the Bible ("We assume you have ... or ... can easily acquire...
...Manhattan. Says he, "I am a poor but good Crowninshield." His father was a mural painter of independent means. As editor of the late, lamented Vanity Fair Crownie made it a lively canapé-service of contemporary taste, with succulent tidbits of Noel Coward, Colette, Dorothy Parker, Ring Lardner, Harold Nicolson, Edmund Wilson...