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...University of California, too, is bulging with private-school refugees. At Berkeley ($11,160 out-of-state), another Moll favorite, some 40% of the students are minorities, many of whom could have met the entry standards of Ivy League schools. Says California President David Gardner about his university system: "It's just undeniable that a lot of students who in the past would have applied to private universities are applying here because of the [cost] differential between a public and private school." If that trend continues, even the finest of the Ivys may begin to see the best...
...trouble. Leanne Lachman, president of the Chicago-based Real Estate Research Corp. (estimated 1985 revenues: $7.8 million), recalls that her promotion in 1979 triggered such stories about her firm. Says she: "Appointing a woman as president was a high-risk thing to do at the time." Barbara Gardner Proctor avoided the problem in 1970 when she founded her Chicago advertising agency by naming it Proctor & Gardner. Some early clients, she recalls, "assumed that there was a Mr. Gardner who ran the business, and I was in sales. I did not dissuade them from believing this...
...Herb Gardner, author of the 1962 A Thousand Clowns, is the laureate of losers who wage hopeless battles while cracking jokes. He celebrates fighting the system as the way to keep the soul alive. So when he puts two old men on a bench in I'm Not Rappaport, it is not surprising that they are engaging codgers, inspired liars, tattered but gallant knights-errant. They take on the muggers, the drug dealers, the authorities who impose mandatory retirement, all without moving more than a few feet from the bench. Their skirmishes are uproarious. What gives the play...
...there is a figure on the tank in Fostoria, how do these people know that it is Jesus? Maybe it is Moses or Muhammad or Yul Brynner. Larry A. Gardner, Professor of Religion Capital University Columbus...
...seen in the case of the law school, prestigious review panels have been set up but we don’t really know what they thought about what they discovered and how the punishments, if any, relate to those leveled against students accused of similar violations,” Gardner writes...