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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nine people, four of them Law School students, scrambled out of a two-story frame dwelling on Sumner Road at dawn yesterday before a raging fire that killed 65-year old William C. Gardner, operator of the rooming house, and seriously damaged first floor rooms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law Students Routed; Man Killed in Fire | 4/12/1947 | See Source »

...Williams) Douglas, 52, has been led far afield from his chosen career in mining. Last week, President Truman called him from the presidency of the Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York to be United States Ambassador to England. He will succeed North Carolina's O. Max Gardner, who died on the day of his departure for London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: A Good Risk | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

...year-old Max Gardner, it was a strenuous time. During the day he was hard at work, conferring at the State Department, boning up on his new job. And night after night he was up late at parties in his honor. He got little rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Arrival & Departure | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

...Morrisons left early, realizing that the Gardners had a tiring day ahead. Max Gardner was in bed by 10 o'clock. Five hours later, he awoke with a sharp pain in his chest. The hotel's doctor was summoned. At 5 a.m. a heart specialist was called. Examination showed that a blood clot was blocking off the blood from Max Gardner's heart. At 8:25 a.m. the starved heart stopped. Oliver Max Gardner was dead. It would be hard to find as good a man to fill his place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Arrival & Departure | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

Died. Oliver Max Gardner, 64, newly appointed Ambassador to the Court of St. James'5; onetime governor of North Carolina, onetime Under Secretary of the U.S. Treasury; of thrombosis; on the day he was to have sailed for England to begin his new job; in Manhattan (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 17, 1947 | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

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