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Champion. Ring Lardner's prize middleweight heel, played with a wallop by Kirk Douglas (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Aug. 15, 1949 | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

Champion. Ring Lardner's prize middleweight heel, played with a wallop by Kirk Douglas (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Aug. 1, 1949 | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

Considered Opinion. The early Runyon shows talents of two kinds: he might have written boys' stories with the charm and freshness of Booth Tarkington's Penrod books, or he might have become a Lardner-like realist in vernacular. Instead, he mastered a highly successful formula...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Hired Rebel | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...mildly amusing Broadway stories and over three dozen sketches written between 1907 and 1915 in Runyon's youthful, pre-formula days. One of them, a hobo story called "The Informal Execution of Soupbone Pew," is a report of a murder told in a bantering tone reminiscent of Ring Lardner. Others are gentle spoofs on his old home town in the West, sketches of Army life in the Spanish-American War, or idyllic reminiscences of childhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Hired Rebel | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

Champion. Ring Lardner's prize middleweight heel, played with a wallop by Kirk Douglas (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Jul. 25, 1949 | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

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