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Married. Ringgold Wilmer ("Ring") Lardner Jr., 31, Hollywood writer (Woman of the Year), son of the late great humorist; and Radio Actress Frances Chaney Lardner, 27, widow of Ring's brother David, war correspondent killed near Aachen; both for the second time; in Las Vegas...
Crosby's brash columns have brought baskets of fan mail, offers from book publishers and four salary boosts in three months. There has been nothing quite like his comments since the dying Ring Lardner wrote in 1933: "Radio, I must admit, is hard to do without when a person is too old to work, too shallow-brained to read much...
...three years, he drew front-page political cartoons for the Chicago Inter-Ocean - a fellow toiler with another famed U.S. humorist, Ring Lardner. And for two years more, at a phenomenal $70 a week, he drew for the Cincinnati Post...
...Carole Landis looks "like a chiffonier with its top drawer pulled out." Of another buxom girl, he wrote: "only a build in a girdled cage.") What his readers also get, every so often, is some of the most accurately recorded Broadway-and-Sports Americana since the late great Ring Lardner...
Died. Beatrice Bakrow Kaufman, 50, fine-feathered (the late Ring Lardner said that she was never seen in the same costume twice, and generally not even once) wife of Playwright George S. Kaufman, free-lance writer, co-author (but not with George) of two plays (The White-Haired Boy, Divided by Three), both flops; after a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan...