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...late great American humorist, Ring Lardner, left four sons. They all became writers. Jim died in Spain, fighting as a member of the International Brigade-the last American to enlist, and the last to be killed. David served as a war correspondent for The New Yorker, was killed in Germany when his jeep ran into a minefield. John is a sports columnist for Newsweek. The fourth brother, Ring Jr., last week went to jail...
Tall, slender, bespectacled Ring Lardner, 34, grew up in Great Neck, Long Island, went to Andover and Princeton. At home Ring Sr. never discussed political issues, but the sardonic views that salted his writings also flavored his conversation. Or as his friend Heywood Broun put it, in the jargon of their set: "Under an insulation of isolation and indifference, Ring boiled with a passion against smugness and hypocrisy and the hard heart of the world...
...that number, Screenwriter Ring Lardner Jr., who had refused to tell the House Un-American Activities Committee whether or not he was a Communist, waited for prospects to call...
...industry increasingly geared to "the big pitch" they are a thin remnant. One of the best of them, Maxwell Perkins, died three years ago after a legendary 37-year career with Scribner in which he discovered or helped push to fame such men as Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Marquand and Thomas Wolfe...
Actors' Studio (Tues. 9 p.m., CBS-TV). Ring Lardner's A Frame...