I often quip that I’m the last of the bison when it comes to American journalists—a description Ring Lardner applied to Gene ...

But Ring Lardner’s Jack Keefe, hero of the stories that becameYou Know Me Al, represented not only a new and realistic rhythm of speech but ...

MY EARS ARE BENT—Joseph Mitchell —Sheridan House ($2.50). In his best short stories the late Ring Lardner pictured a strange, submerged, widely-publicized but yet unknown type—the amiable ...

I often quip that I’m the last of the bison when it comes to American journalists—a description Ring Lardner applied to Gene Fowler in the 1930s. It’s a nice line, but it’s not quite right.