Word: gardner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Asbestos Heir Tommy Manville, separated from wife No. 8, vowed his next would be "a wise, mature woman, someone like Ava Gardner, or Paulette Goddard." Meanwhile, Manville said he was using his spare time planning a new question & answer television show on the problems of modern living...
Meanwhile, while police were trying to link the two fires, Gardner E. Lindzey, lecturer in Social Relations, suggested the theory that someone with latent pyromaniac tendencies might have been inspired to set the second fire by the publicity and attention given the first one. He added, however, that this was pure conjecture...
Good as Gold. In Denver, Prospector Everett B. Gardner returned a 200-lb. pewter statue he found on a gold-hunting expedition to the Keifer Plumbing Co., which had reported it stolen, collected a $50 reward...
After due thought, the National Association of Women Artists decided that America's "most stimulating faces" included: Ernest Hemingway, whose face "proclaims, 'I've hair on my chest'"; Cinemactress Ava Gardner, whose face "stimulates desire" and "has the potential explosiveness of the H-bomb"; the New York Yankees' Catcher Yogi Berra, who "stimulates women's subconscious yearning for the Neanderthal man" with "the most down-to-earth face in America...
...stock. A onetime Indiana farm boy, Swanson married at 18, had to go to work instead of college. He moved from one Chicago radio manufacturer to another, studied electronics at night school. By the time he was 23, he was a top design engineer for Chicago's Wells-Gardner & Co. (where he worked on auto radios), later made a name as a free-lance consultant on electronic equipment...