Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...theatrical season," wrote the New York Star's new drama critic last week, "got tangled in the starting gate Tuesday night, and all bets are 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...
...Yorker last season. But Lardner's friends wondered how he would find time to cover his new beat. Although he considers himself a free-lance writer, at least four employers consider that they hold a proprietary interest in him. He is a staff contributor (of a sport column) to Newsweek, a staff writer on the New Yorker, a contributor on the new National Guardian (see above), and a veteran, but infrequent, sport columnist for North American Newspaper Alliance. (Newsweek felt a little queasy about his new left-liberal connections, but apparently hoped that its readers would not notice...
...Steps. Strapping John Lardner was born on Chicago's South Side while his father was a sportwriter on the old Chicago Examiner. Of the Lardner boys,* only John has followed in his father's sport steps. He also seems to have inherited his father's ear for speech and tongue for humor. After a year at Harvard, he went to work on the Paris Herald, then spent three years on its parent paper in Manhattan, under City Editor Stanley Walker. He married the boss's secretary, Hazel Cannan, and became a sportwriter, and later war correspondent...
This week, when its author returned from vacation, he had a new contract with the Sun-Times at $22,500 a year, a 50% raise. That made Irv Kupcinet Chicago's second best-paid columnist, next to Chicago Tribune's Sport Editor Arch Ward ($50,000 a year). Kup is taking on other chores too; he has two radio jobs and was dickering last week for two more...
...Times. Son of a West Side bakery driver, he worked his way through Northwestern and the University of North Dakota, was a quarterback and college publicity man. His career as a pro footballer (with the Philadelphia Eagles) lasted only five games; a shoulder injury turned him into a sport reporter. In 1943 the Times let him try a column. Cracked Kup: "I spent all my time in nightclubs anyway...