Lardner was also a well-known sports columnist, who began his career as a teenager with the South Bend Tribune.

He corresponded also with Thomas Morgan the Welsh deist and moral philosopher, of very different views but who found Lardner impartial.

Lardner also criticised Brunel's design of the Box Tunnel on the Great Western Railway.

In 1948, Fleischer also directed So This Is New York, a cynically sophisticated comedy starring acerbic humorist Henry Morgan based upon a Ring Lardner novel.

Marc Spector also investigated Charles LeBlanc and encountered James Lardner.

Lardner also seemed to get a kick out of the production crew's daily headache of trying to make " a few hundred extras look like a World Series crowd of thousands.

Other writers, including Ring Lardner Jr., Budd Schulberg, Dorothy Parker, Sidney Howard, Moss Hart, George S. Kaufman and Robert Carson also made uncredited contributions to the screenplay.

It was because of James Lawrence Lardner that one of his nephews came to be known as Ring Lardner: James Lardner was a friend of Cadwalader Ringgold, another Navy officer who also became a rear admiral.

Unemployed, Foreman and some others who had also been blacklisted such as Ring Lardner, Jr. moved to England where they wrote scripts under pseudonyms that were channeled back to Hollywood.

White also gained some recognition as a composer, publishing at least four songs ( such as bestseller " Little Puff of Smoke, Good Night " in 1910 ) with his co-writer Ring Lardner, who was a sportswriter in Chicago during that period.

The cousin, in turn had been named by Lardner's uncle, Rear Admiral James L. Lardner, who had decided to name his son after a friend, Rear Admiral Cadwalader Ringgold, who was from a distinguished military family.

To create his first book of short stories Lardner had to get copies from the magazines he'd sold them to — he held his own short stories in light regard and did not save copies.

" She had to get her comeuppance for being too strong in a man's world so they wrote a scene where she tried to fix breakfast ... and gets everything wrong ", said Lardner.

Whilst lecturing in America Lardner was paid by Norris Brothers, the largest firm of locomotive builders, to investigate a fatal accident in Reading, near Philadelphia, where a boiler had exploded on a newly made train.

Lardner pronounced that the accident had been caused by lightning, which meant that Norris brothers were not personally liable for the accident.

* 1993: George Lardner Jr., The Washington Post, " for his unflinching examination of his daughter's murder by a violent man who had slipped through the criminal justice system.

He was one of several writers who had worked on versions of the screenplay, including Paddy Chayevsky, George Good, and Ring Lardner Jr.

He married Elizabeth Lardner ( d. 1748 ), by whom he had one son, Nathanael, and two daughters.

Ring Lardner, Jr. had high praise for him, saying of his performance as the star of Little Lord Fauntleroy, " He is on the screen almost constantly, and his performance is a valid characterization, which is almost unique in a child actor, and, indeed, in three fourths of adult motion-picture stars.

They had four children: Frances Moale Gibbon, Catharine " Katy " Lardner Gibbon, John Gibbon, Jr. ( who died as a toddler ) and John S. Gibbon.

When the film was released, Bosley Crowther, the film critic for The New York Times, believed the drama was not exactly faithful to the original Lardner story, which had a very hard-edge.

Lardner married Margaret Wilmer on February 2, 1832, and they had three children, two of which died in infancy.

As a writer and director, Dunne frequently worked with others who either were, had been, or would become blacklisted, including Ring Lardner Jr., Clifford Odets, Albert Maltz, and Marsha Hunt.

Lardner went on to write such well-known stories as " Haircut ", " Some Like Them Cold ", " The Golden Honeymoon ", " Alibi Ike ", and " A Day with Conrad Green ".

According to a survey by Korn / Ferry International, Sarbanes – Oxley cost Fortune 500 companies an average of $ 5. 1 million in compliance expenses in 2004, while a study by the law firm of Foley and Lardner found the Act increased costs associated with being a publicly held company by 130 percent.

It was directed by George Stevens, produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and written by Ring Lardner Jr. and Michael Kanin ( his brother Garson Kanin thought up the original idea and worked with Katharine Hepburn along with brother Michael and Lardner on the early drafts, without credit.

Ring Lardner Jr. ( far right ) with eight others of the Hollywood 10 charged with contempt of Congress in 1947.

His sister Elizabeth married Daniel Neal, who studied with Lardner in Utrecht.

Other works by Lardner are A Large Collection of Ancient Jewish and Heathen Testimonies to the Truth of the Christian Revelation, with Notes and Observations ( 4 volumes, quarto, 1764 – 1767 ); The History of the Heretics of the two first Centuries after Christ, published posthumously in 1780 ; and a considerable number of occasional sermons.

Lardner made a case against subordinationism of Samuel Clarke in which the eternal Logos unites with a human body in the man Jesus, opposed to the Trinitarian view.

According to Lardner the Logos of John 1, was to be understood as a divine attribute, which metaphorically “ became flesh ” in the man Jesus, and other traditional pre-existence proof texts are interpreted in ways consistent with Christ's not existing before his conception.

Lardner provided him with financial support until 1840.

Lardner himself was the author of the treatises on arithmetic, geometry, heat, hydrostatics and pneumatics, mechanics ( in conjunction with Henry Kater ) and electricity ( in conjunction with C. V. Walker ).

In 1840 Lardner ’ s career received a major setback as a result of his involvement with Mary Spicer Heaviside, the wife of Captain Richard Heaviside, of the Dragoon Guards.

Lardner ran off to Paris with Mrs Heaviside, pursued by her husband.

When he caught up with them, Heaviside subjected Lardner to a flogging ; he was unable to persuade his wife to return with him.

The scandal caused by his affair with a married woman effectively ended his career in England, so Lardner and his wife remained in Paris until shortly before his death in 1859.

Lardner became involved in a number of ill-advised public disagreements with Isambard Kingdom Brunel regarding technical matters, in which he came off the worse.

Ringgold Wilmer Lardner ( March 6, 1885 – September 25, 1933 ) was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical takes on the sports world, marriage, and the theatre.

The principle that Brunel understood, which Lardner did not, was that the carrying capacity of a ship increases as the cube of its dimensions, whilst the water-resistance only increases as the square of its dimensions.

Born in Niles, Michigan, Ring Lardner was the son of wealthy parents Henry and Lena Phillips Lardner.

Lardner was married to Ellis Abbott of Goshen, Indiana in 1911.

Ring Lardner, Jr. was a screenwriter who was blacklisted after the Second World War as one of the Hollywood Ten, screenwriters who were incarcerated for contempt of Congress after refusing to answer questions posed by the House Un-American Activities Committee ( HUAC ).

Lardner was a grand uncle to 1993 Pulitzer Prize winner George Lardner, Jr., a journalist at The Washington Post since 1963.

" Ring Lardner thought of himself as primarily a sports columnist whose stuff wasn't destined to last, and he held to that absurd belief even after his first masterpiece, You Know Me Al, was published in 1916 and earned the awed appreciation of Virginia Woolf, among other very serious, unfunny people ", wrote Andrew Ferguson, who named it, in a Wall Street Journal article, one of the top five pieces of American humor writing.

Lardner was a close friend of F. Scott Fitzgerald and other writers of the Jazz Age.

With the exception of You Know Me Al, which was initially written and published as six separate stories, Lardner never wrote a novel, but is considered by many to be one of America's best writers of the short story.

Kanin was fighting in the war at the time, so the script was written by his brother, Michael Kanin, and mutual friend Ring Lardner, Jr. Hepburn contributed significantly to the script-reading it, suggesting cuts and word changes, and generally providing helpful enthusiasm for the project.

Ringgold Wilmer " Ring " Lardner, Jr. ( August 19, 1915 – October 31, 2000 ) was an American journalist and screenwriter blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios during the Red Scare of the late 1940s and 1950s.

Born in Chicago, he was the son of Ellis ( Abbott ) and journalist and humorist, Ring Lardner.

His brother, James Lardner, was a member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, and was killed in action in Spain in 1938.

Lardner was sentenced to 12 months in Danbury Prison and fined $ 1, 000.

Lardner refused to tell which movie it was, saying that it would be unfair to reveal it because the writer who allowed Lardner, Jr., to use his name as a front ( as Lardner's pseudonym ) was doing him a big favor at the time.