Their first Broadway collaboration after their service was the musical, Look, Ma! I'm Dancin'. While serving in World War II, they helped found the Armed Forces Radio Service. Lawrence was a writer for CBS radio and Lee was working for Young & Rubicam, the advertising agency. Lawrence reportedly met Lee (a native of Elyria, Ohio) in New York in 1942 while Mr.
from Ohio State University in 1937 and later did graduate work at the University of California. His father owned a printing company and his mother was a poet and philanthropist. Their best-known work might be the courtroom drama, Inherit the Wind, the even-handed fictionalization of the Scopes Monkey Trial that put a Tennessee teacher on trial for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution in a community where creationism was embraced. Lawrence was 88 and leaves behind 39 works co-written with Lee, including librettos for Dear World and Mame.
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