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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...
Founded in 1833, the Telegraph's roster of writers over the years included H.L. Mencken, Ring Lardner, Louella Parsons, Ben Hecht, George Jean Nathan and Heywood Broun, who was fired. When it carried Walter Winchell's "Beau Broadway" column in the 1920s, the Telegraph was studied as closely as Variety at Broadway restaurants such as Sardi's and Lindy's. Even in recent years the paper kept five staffers on the show-biz beat. One of the most popular writers in the 1950s was Columnist Tom O'Reilly, who used to write a Monday piece...
...lames Lardner '69 will answer questions about being a policeman assist potential applicants and ward off hecklers at 7:30 Monday night. March 29, in the Adams House Junior Common Room...
...service comedy set during the Korean War and manned by a group of farceurs including Donald Sutherland, Sally Kellerman and Elliot Gould before he became obnoxious. Ring Lardner Jr. wrote the screenplay and Robert Altman directed, frenetically...