Word: gardners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...celebrated as his snobbishness, social climbing and personal courage. Says an equally cruel contemporary: "One can find Evelyn's biography in the dedications of his books, each displaying a further step in his social progress." His first book, Rossetti; His Life and Works, was dedicated to Evelyn Gardner (fourth daughter of the first & last Baron Burghclere, and later Mrs. Evelyn Waugh No. 1). The Loved One is dedicated to Nancy Mitford, sister of the late Unity Mitford...
Pater Rejected. Bernhard Berenson breathes the air of a world long past. Born in Lithuania, of "the Jewish aristocracy, the old gentry," he grew up in Boston, was working his way through Boston University when haughty, wealthy Mrs. Jack Gardner discovered his talents. She helped him through Harvard in return for his advice on her art collection. Then Bernhard went abroad...
...publishing team responsible for Look's success was President (and Editor) Gardner Cowles and his blonde wife Fleur Fenton Cowles, 38, associate editor...
EVELYN S. GARDNER...
Polly's dead-heat companion was Carmen Ogden, and as Gardner and the winning girls posed for sleepy camera men, a benevoleut sun gave the colorful annual classic one of its first pleasant days in many years of hoop rolling...