Ring Lardner Jr describes in Archive of America Television oral history interviews ( 2000 ) that changes made to the ending of the film were against the wishes of Katherine Hepburn, whilst both screenwriters were on vacation in New York.

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.

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.

Lardner appeared before the HUAC on October 30, 1947, but like Alvah Bessie, Herbert Biberman, Albert Maltz, Adrian Scott, Dalton Trumbo, Lester Cole, Edward Dmytryk, Samuel Ornitz and John Howard Lawson, he refused to answer any questions.

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.

* Foley & Lardner Survey ( 2007 ): This annual study focused on changes in the total costs of being a U. S. public company, which were significantly affected by SOX.

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.

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

Lardner asserted that if a train's brakes were to fail in the tunnel, it would accelerate to over 120 m. p. h., at which speed the passengers would suffocate.

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.

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

After the blacklist collapsed, Lardner said that the series ' format allowed him " plenty of opportunities to comment on issues and institutions in Eisenhower-era America ;" presumably A Tuck in Time was such an episode, in which a twin of Friar Tuck arrives boasting of his willingness to sell a weapon that could destroy the world.

During Kennedy's tenure in office, the Navy organized four important naval expeditions including that which sent Commodore Matthew C. Perry to Japan and Lieutenant William Lewis Herndon and Lieutenant Lardner Gibbon to explore the Amazon.

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.

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.

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 ".

Lardner also had a lifelong fascination with the theatre, although his only success was June Moon, a comedy co-written with Broadway veteran George S. Kaufman.

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

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.

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

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.

* 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.

At the London University, there was a man by the name of Francis Kerby, who acted as assistant and curator of instruments to both Dr. Dionysius Lardner and Dr. William Ritchie ( physicist ).

Lardner went further to argue that the New Testament does not teach that Jesus or any element within him pre-existed Mary's pregnancy.

* 1915 – Ring Lardner, Jr., American journalist and screenwriter ( d. 2000 )

* Carmody, Denise Lardner and John Tully Carmody.

Nevertheless, all the distinctive Christadelphian doctrines, down to interpretations of specific verses, can be found particularly among 16th century Socinian writers ( e. g. the rejection of the doctrines of the trinity, pre-existence of Christ, immortal souls, a literal hell of fire, original sin ) Christian Thomasius ( 1704 ), Arthur Ashley Sykes ( 1737 ), Nathaniel Lardner ( 1742 ), Dr. Richard Mead ( 1755 ), Hugh Farmer ( at least in the account of Christ's temptation ; 1761 ), William Ashdowne ( 1791 ), John Simpson ( 1804 ) and John Epps ( 1842 )

The other elected members were: M. W. O ' Reilly ( Dublin ); Austin Stack ( Kerry ); Con Collins ( Limerick ); Seán MacEntee ( Belfast ); Joe O ' Doherty ( Donegal ); Paul Galligan ( Cavan ); Eoin O ' Duffy ( Monaghan ); Séamus Doyle ( Wexford ); Peadar Bracken ( Offaly ); Larry Lardner ( Galway ); Dick Walsh ( Mayo ) and another member from Connacht.

* 1885 – Ring Lardner, American writer ( d. 1933 )

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.

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

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.

Lardner never liked his given name and shortened it, naming one of his sons Ring Jr.

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 ).

His book, The Lardners, My Family Remembered ( ISBN 0-06-012517-9 ), is a reliable source of Lardner information.

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

In 1913, Lardner provided lyrics for " That Old Quartet " for composer Nathaniel D. Mann.

In 1916, Lardner published his first successful book, You Know Me Al, an epistolary novel written in the form of letters by " Jack Keefe ", a bush-league baseball player, to a friend back home.

" 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.