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...newspaper Stars and Stripes, fighting not just the Germans during the Italian campaign but also tedium, wet socks, lousy K rations and their commanding officers. G.I.s everywhere laughed, or nodded in rueful recognition. Mauldin combined the satiric eye and brush of a Daumier with the ear of a Ring Lardner. He captioned a drawing of a sergeant addressing his bedraggled men: "I need a couple guys what don't owe me no money for a little routine patrol." His war works won Mauldin a Pulitzer Prize in 1945, and the 23-year-old, who'd grown up poor...
Asked by the Chairman of the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1947 whether he was or had ever been a member of the Communist Party, the screenwriter Ring Lardner Jr. objected to the question and finally said, "I could answer it, but if I did, I would hate myself in the morning." It became a memorable line, and it makes an appropriate title for Lardner's breezy, engaging memoir, I'd Hate Myself in the Morning (Nation Books; 198 pages; $22.95). Reams have been written about the Hollywood blacklist and the witch hunts of the late...
...still rich and famous, a magnet for such visitors as Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald ("I have never seen a photograph that conveyed the beauty I saw in her"). There are glittering Hollywood anecdotes featuring everyone from David O. Selznick to Robert Altman, and behind-the-scenes stories about Lardner's two screenwriting Oscars, for Woman of the Year and M*A*S*H. The only sad thing about this book is its timing. Lardner died on Oct. 31 at age 85. He is worth remembering...
DIED. RING LARDNER JR., 85, screenwriter, son of baseball writer and short-story author Ring Lardner; of cancer; in New York City. Lardner was the last surviving member of the "Hollywood 10" group of writers, directors and producers blacklisted in the 1940s for refusing to answer questions posed by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. When asked if he was a communist, Lardner said, "I could answer that question the way you want, Mr. Chairman, but if I did, I'd hate myself in the morning." He served nine months in prison in 1947 and didn't receive credit...
Even now, just weeks after the latest meningitis scare created a rush for vaccinations, Lardner said the numbers of those asking for vaccinations is almost as low as it was before...