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Lardner and went
Lardner went further to argue that the New Testament does not teach that Jesus or any element within him pre-existed Mary's pregnancy.
Marc changed into Moon Knight and went after James Lardner who used a gas grenade to escape.

Lardner and on
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.
* 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.
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 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.
The screenwriters were given some room to rewrite the new ending on return from New York, and in the same interview Lardner recalls " some of the worst lines we rewrote, but we couldn't fix it, we couldn't change it fundamentally "
* Mike Allen and George Lardner Jr., " Papers Offer Details on Bush Knowledge Motive for Stock Sale In ' 90 Remains Unclear ", Washington Post Sunday, July 14, 2002 ; Page A01
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.
Blacklisted by the Hollywood studios, Lardner worked for the next couple of years on the novel, The Ecstasy of Owen Muir ( 1954 ).
Whilst in Dublin, Lardner began to write and lecture on scientific and mathematical matters, and to contribute articles for publication by the Irish Academy.
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 ).
Lardner also criticised Brunel's design of the Box Tunnel on the Great Western Railway.
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.
A working draft of the Lardner book was prepared in the summer of 1973 by Bruccoli, who " put his then-graduate-research-assistant Layman to work on checking it.
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.
The last ships in Wright's column, Lamson and Lardner, failed to locate any targets and exited the battle area to the east after being mistakenly fired on by machine guns from New Orleans.
He was one of several writers who had worked on versions of the screenplay, including Paddy Chayevsky, George Good, and Ring Lardner Jr.
It contained the first industry names on what later became the infamous Hollywood Blacklist — Dalton Trumbo, Maurice Rapf, Lester Cole, Howard Koch, Harold Buchman, John Wexley, Ring Lardner Jr., Harold Salemson, Henry Meyers, Theodore Strauss and John Howard Lawson.
In 1818 he was in India, and in 1823 he married a widow named Frances Lardner, while on leave in England.
Other notable geologists working on the survey included Lardner Vanuxem and Timothy Conrad.
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.
In 1941, he and Katharine Hepburn worked with his brother Michael Kanin and Ring Lardner, Jr., on the early drafts of what would become Woman of the Year right before Garson enlisted in the army.
Back row: Ring Lardner Jr., Edward Dmytryk, Adrian Scott. In 1947, the U. S. House Committee on Un-American Activities began investigating the film industry, and Biberman became one of ten Hollywood writers and directors cited for contempt of Congress when they refused to answer questions about their Communist Party USA affiliation.
Champion ( 1949 ) is an American film noir drama based on a short story by Ring Lardner.

Lardner and such
Ring Lardner, Jr., Oscar-winning screenwriter of such films as Woman of the Year and M * A * S * H, came to Bush Stadium to see what the buzz was all about.
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.
Early on, several bright young writers and photographic journalists joined the Daily Mirror, such as Ring Lardner, Jr., Hy Peskin and the political commentator Drew Pearson.
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.

Lardner and well-known
Lardner was also a well-known sports columnist, who began his career as a teenager with the South Bend Tribune.
Among the well-known Spink Award winners are Fred Lieb, Shirley Povich, Jerome Holtzman, Ring Lardner, Sam Lacy, and Peter Gammons.

Lardner and stories
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.
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.
* Alibi Ike, a series of short stories written by Ring Lardner
Other offerings: humorous sketches by Damon Runyon ; O. Henry stories ; editorials by Arthur Brisbane ; Ring Lardner letter ; " Rippling Rhymes ," by Walt Mason ; literary articles by H. L. Mencken.

Lardner and ",
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.
" 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.
When asked his name, he replies first " Bessie Bibermann ", then " Cole Lardner ", then " Scott Trumbo ".
Tactics to entice Indianapolis residents to come to the stadium to act as film extras were " a flop ", Lardner wrote.
James Lardner named one of his sons " Ringgold Wilmer Lardner ", and James ' brother gave exactly the same name to his own son after the newborn's cousin.

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