Word: gardner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Cinemactress Ava Gardner stepped from a plane at a Madrid airport, she played a supporting role to a fellow passenger: a timid-looking young man in a brown suit, yellow tie and outsized sun glasses. Ignoring the movie queen, a score of waiting dignitaries and cameramen rushed forward to greet ex-King Peter of Yugoslavia, who had arrived to pay his respects to Francisco Franco...
...week were invited to follow a mystery serial that was improbable even by whodunit standards. The story, called The Ptomaine Canary, tells how a strapping Met soprano with ambitions as a detective-story writer tries to speed her literary success by drugging such established literary rivals as Erie Stanley Gardner, John Dickson Carr, Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler: she lures them into accepting dope-soaked birdseed held out to them by her trained canary, Galli-Curci. The soprano gets in trouble when one of her less celebrated victims unexpectedly dies. Despite its over-cute plot and slapdash style, the tale...
...basic technique was worked out at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research by a team including famed Microbiologist René J. Dubos and Dr. Gardner Middlebrook. Between 5 and 7 cc of blood (less than two teaspoons) are drawn from an arm vein. The serum (amber fluid) is separated from the cells and added to a specially treated preparation containing the red cells of sheep's blood. The mixture is kept at blood heat for two hours and then left at room temperature overnight...
Patricia Partridge '53 of Cabot Hall and Gardner; Choral Society...
Dick Braisted and John Gardner were high scorers in the meet, registering 30 points in the B division of the competition. John Bishop, Pete Putnam, and Tom Carroll raced for the Crimson in the A division...