Word: gardners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first full-length biography of "Old Man" Scripps, founder of chain-journalism in the U. S., appeared last month.* Its author, Gilson Gardner, longtime Washington correspondent for Scripps and his frequent companion aboard the Ohio, had every facility for making it an authentic portrait, including the insistence of his late employer that...
...readers of Scripps (now Scripps-Howard) papers question the sincerity of a man who amassed a fortune of many millions, lived in quiet ease on a California ranch and aboard a yacht, yet caused his editors always to cry out for the masses, for Labor, for the underdog. Biographer Gardner answers them in two ways. Explicitly the ''Old Man" is quoted as saying of his wealth to a worker: "I can't help it. ... You are too lazy to think for yourselves. . . . You pay me a big income because you think I am worth it. I make decisions for you?...
...rise, as related by Biographer Gardner, followed no Horatio Alger pattern. He rarely got out of bed before noon, seldom went near his newspaper offices. For 25 of his 72 years he drank industriously, quitting abruptly at 46 when he found that his current consumption of a gallon of whiskey per day threatened his eyesight...
...Blin Gardner, an ingenuous country lad with a knack for mechanical things, is about to take off for Japan in an aeroplane financed by his pretty fiancee and built by two old "characters" in order to receive a fifty thousand dollar prize. After a great deal of emotion, he finally gets away and is last heard of off the coast of Alaska. The next scene is in a New York hotel. Blin, the victorious hero, is expected home. His publicity manager is storming into telephones, receiving reporters, making engagements for dinners, banquets, radio broadcasts, and arranging cigarette endorsements. People rush...
...stellar performer for Harvard by pushing the puck in for two goals. The summaries: FRESHMEN ANDOVER Bacon, Baxter, l.f., r.f., Fawcolt, Cushman Lincoin, Cort, Saltonstall, Hollis, r.f., l.f., Summers, Knowles, Bartlett Holmes, Pruyn, Gleason, c., c., Coole, Badere Walts, Mendelson, l.d., r.d., O'Neil, Widdecombe Pruyn, Dow, r.d., l.d., Gardner, Clapp Reece, Morrison, g., g., Bartow...