Word: ringgold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...temporarily off." That sounded more like a sport-writer than a play reviewer-and it was, sure enough. The reviewer, who got off to a somewhat better start than Sundown Beach (see THEATER), was John Lardner, 36, chipperest off the old block of all the late great Humorist Ringgold Wilmer Lardner's four sons...
...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...
David was the youngest of the four sons of the late great Ringgold Wilmer (Ring) Lardner. Each had carried on in his father's field. John, the eldest, Newsweek's able war correspondent in Africa and Europe, is temporarily writing the New Yorker's cinema reviews. Ringgold Jr. is a Hollywood scenarist (Woman of the Year). James, the third son, went to Spain during the civil war as a New York Herald Tribune reporter, joined the Loyalists' International Brigade, was killed in battle...