Word: lardners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Almost from the beginning, novelists have gone to bat for the game. Ring Lardner saw baseball as the great American comedy-look through the knothole and you found uniformed counterparts of Huck Finn and Charlie Chaplin...
...wedding three years ago of Journalist Peter Niesewand and Nonie Fogarty in Salisbury, Rhodesia, one of the guests quipped to the bride: "If he doesn't look after you, my dear, I'll have him restricted." The jocular threat came from Desmond Lardner-Burke, Minister of Justice, Law and Order. Niesewand has looked after his wife well enough, but for the past month he has been in jail under an order signed by Lardner-Burke. The vague grounds: the freelance reporter was "likely to commit acts prejudicial to public safety or public order." Free translation: the white-supremacist...
People who write sports learn a lot about life. They learn what makes people tick under pressure, Jimmy Breaslin got his start as a sportswriter. So did Ring Lardner. So did James Restion...
Threaded through such stories is a mixed garland of parodies, including Faulkner (Requiem for a Noun), Elizabeth Bowen ("Tennyson, Anyone?") and Ring Lardner, who is sent up in the guise of a Little League manager writing home in You Know Me, Alice...
There is a sad tradition, however, of successful humorists writing sequels. Ring Lardner took the hero of You Know Me, Al to the battlefields of France, and Stephen Potter, the creator of Gamesmanship, descended to writing gamesman's rules as advertisements for soft drinks. True to the tradition, Dr. Peter has now written The Peter Prescription, subtitled How to Make Things Go Right, and sub-subtitled Sixty-Six Formulas for Improving the Quality of Your Life...