Word: lardners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guild of Former Pipe Organ Pumpers (TIME, May 25, 1931), formed to combat the impression that all famous men earned their first dollars selling newspapers. He earned his at organ-pumping, and so did such distinguished members (Chet collected about 4,000 at $5 a "diploma") as Ring Lardner, Julius Rosenwald and Jimmy Walker...
Married. Ringgold Wilmer ("Ring") Lardner Jr., 31, Hollywood writer (Woman of the Year), son of the late great humorist; and Radio Actress Frances Chaney Lardner, 27, widow of Ring's brother David, war correspondent killed near Aachen; both for the second time; in Las Vegas...
Crosby's brash columns have brought baskets of fan mail, offers from book publishers and four salary boosts in three months. There has been nothing quite like his comments since the dying Ring Lardner wrote in 1933: "Radio, I must admit, is hard to do without when a person is too old to work, too shallow-brained to read much...
...three years, he drew front-page political cartoons for the Chicago Inter-Ocean - a fellow toiler with another famed U.S. humorist, Ring Lardner. And for two years more, at a phenomenal $70 a week, he drew for the Cincinnati Post...
...Carole Landis looks "like a chiffonier with its top drawer pulled out." Of another buxom girl, he wrote: "only a build in a girdled cage.") What his readers also get, every so often, is some of the most accurately recorded Broadway-and-Sports Americana since the late great Ring Lardner...