Word: lardners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Woman of the Year(Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) was made to order for bold Katharine Hepburn. She saw to it that it was: she helped edit the script (authored by two comparatively unknown Hollywood-sprites: Ring Lardner Jr. and Michael Kanin) sold it to Metro for an unprecedented $100.000, demanded and got her own leading man (Spencer Tracy) and (from a rival studio) her favorite director (George Stevens...
Beetle-browed, 38-year-old Moe Berg-Princeton '23, Columbia Law School '27 and the Sorbonne at one time or another-is indeed the antithesis of Ring Lardner's celebrated boneheads. A charter member of the Linguistic Society of America, he speaks seven languages-excluding Brooklynese, which he picked up when, fresh from the Princeton campus and trying to hide his Phi Beta Kappa key, he played shortstop for the Dodgers...
Married. David Ellis Lardner, 22, son of the late Humorist Ring Lardner; and Actress Frances Chaney, 24; in Manhattan...
...more or less successfully to the editorial page. The news columns were largely in the hands of City Editor Robert Morton Lee (now dead) and Managing Editor Edward Scott Beck (now on the shelf). Under them the Tribune staff once included such names as Westbrook Pegler, Percy Hammond, Ring Lardner, Burton Rascoe. Present Managing Editor Pat Maloney, who flew with Rickenbacker and wears a Phi Beta Kappa key from Dartmouth, is a hard worker who got his training under Beck and Lee but lacks their independent thinking...
Bach: The Art of Fugue (E. Power Biggs, organist; Victor; 20 sides; $11). Like the late Ring Lardner (How to Write Short Stories), J. S. Bach demonstrated by doing. The Art of Fugue, his last great work, consists of 14 increasingly complex fugues on the same basic subject. Organist Biggs plays them soberly, soundly on Harvard University's limpid-toned "baroque" organ...