Word: gardner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Excitement followed peripatetic Ava Gardner wherever she went. Arriving with her entourage in Rio de Janeiro for a publicity tour, Ava stepped off her plane with her prettiest professional smile. But she soon lost her temper when she was instructed to go through the police, health and customs routine, just like any other traveler. As she opened each piece of luggage, Ava got angrier and angrier, while the customs inspector got increasingly conscientious and methodical. At length she fumed: "Let's get the first plane out of this place. They're a bunch of savages...
Columnist Herb Caen of the San Fran cisco Examiner, who likes nothing better than balancing on the knife edge of propriety, last week passed along to readers a choice item about Cinemactress Ava Gardner. One night, while gambling at Lake Tahoe, said Caen, Ava announced: " 'I want to roll the dice for $1,000.' She picked up the dice and began rubbing them up and down the front of her dress, all the while chanting 'Come seven, come eleven'-and each time she rubbed, her neckline got lower, wow. Finally, she threw the dice hard, shouted...
Still without a divorce from Crooner Frank Sinatra, Cinemactress Ava Gardner left Nevada, where she had waited out her six-week legal residency stint, and rushed to Havana's Hotel Nacional, where she and Frankie had honeymooned so long ago. This time she registered as Miss Anne Clarke and maid, later went fishing with her old friend, Author Ernest Hemingway, hooked a twelve-pounder, while Papa caught nothing...
...Frederick Gardner, 59, was named president of Electric Bond & Share's Ebasco Services Inc., one of the world's biggest designers and builders of utility plants. Gardner began working part-time for Electric Bond as a 25?-an-hour draftsman. He became vice president in 1945, executive vice president in 1952. T. C. Wescott, 67, moves up from president to vice chairman of the board...
...spent weeks rehearsing their music, autocratically vetoed suggestions put forward by the Cheltenham council, flew into tantrums, grumbled about terms and generally made himself indispensable. To justify himself, he pointed to the record. "Look at the young men I've introduced here," he said. "Peter Racine Fricker. John Gardner. Alan Rawsthorne. They're all names now. And I introduced them at the Cheltenham Festival. It is the most important music festival in the country . . . Why, do you know what they asked me to play at Edinburgh this year? Scheherazade. Scheherazade! Imagine! I refused. I said to them...