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Leonard (Lennie) Waldermar Lower (24 September 1903 - 19 July 1947) was an Australian humourist who is still considered by many to be the comic genius of Australian journalism.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Biography - Leonard Waldemere (Lennie) Lower - Australian Dictionary of Biography )〕 ==Life and career== Lower was born in Dubbo, New South Wales. His father was a pharmacist and his mother was Florence McInerney. Educated in Sydney, Lower joined the army for a brief time before turning to journalism, where his talents as a humorist soon gained him a legion of dedicated fans and a place in Australian history. He wrote up to eight columns each week for a variety of newspapers in Sydney during the Depression and World War II. Lennie Lower wrote the novel ''Here's Luck'' in 1929. This novel deals with the twists and turns of fate befalling Jack Gudgeon and his feckless son Stanley. When Jack's wife Agatha suddenly leaves them, both go it alone on a wild rampage through Sydney's race courses, gambling dens, pubs and cafes. Cyril Pearl, a noted Sydney journalist and Lower's editor, described ''Here's Luck'' in the following terms: "It remains pre-eminently Australia's funniest book, as ageless as Pickwick or Tom Sawyer, a work of 'weird genius', as one reviewer put it, written by a 'Chaplin of words'".〔Foreword to 'The Best of Lennie Lower' (see Biblio.)〕 Lower's drinking was 'legendary'〔See ''Aust. Dict. Biog.'' article in Biblio.〕 hence the titles of his two best-known works. 'Here's luck!' is a well-known Australian drinking toast, as is also 'Here's another!'. Lower's piece 'Must Drink Beer' announces that the 'perfect job has been found' - beer tasting for a research institute. Lower's description of the domestic consequences of drunkenness and hangover, have the ring of long experience about them.〔''in Here's Another''〕 Lennie Lower wrote for many Australian newspapers and magazines, including ''The Daily Telegraph'', ''The Sunday Telegraph'', The ''Labor Daily'' and ''Smith's Weekly'', until his death from cancer in 1947 at the age of 43. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lennie Lower」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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