Word: gardner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gone forever. It was a period in which a taste for art came hand-in-hand with a quaint, baroque conception known as "objects d'art," a period surviving more than one generation and producing a few diversified and immense collections. Such a phenomenon is the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum of Boston, the Frick collection of New York, and even, to some extent, the still inaccessible treasures of that formidable eccentric, Alfred Barnes of Philadelphia...
Other winners were Irving McA. Destler '61, Peter F. Salomon '60, Henry S. Berman '61--a winner in the Princeton game contest--and C. Gardner Mallonee...
Like its successful parent, Truth trades more on parlor fun than private largesse, encouraging its 25 million viewers to get their vicarious thrills by playing Hawkshaw at home. The trick is for the panel of four (Polly Bergen, Kitty Carlisle, Ralph Bellamy, Hy Gardner) and home viewers to tell the real McCoy from a trio that includes two impostors or "side men." Each of the panelists is permitted a few questions to separate the cheats from the right chap, but the liars usually put on a more convincing act than the real item or "central character," and their own occupations...
Former Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Research and Development Trevor Gardner, who was in charge of the Air Force ballistic-missile program, was bitter in his memory of the tri-service rocket development that led the Army, Navy and Air Force to compete more for headlines against one another than for technological superiority over the Russians. Said Gardner: "We have presently at least nine ballistic-missile programs, all competing for roughly the same kind of facilities, the same kind of brains, the same kind of engines and the same public attention." Among the loudest of the critics were...
...Rome, thrice-married Cinemactress Ava Gardner said four times was out, described her near, dear companion, Italian Comic Walter Chiari; as just an "attentive, affectionate, charming friend." Mourned Chiari: "I could be ready for the ceremony in ten minutes...