Word: gardners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more friends than big Max Gardner. Ever since he moved from North Carolina to Washington in 1933, the capital's society matrons had welcomed him as a raconteur who added zest. to any party. He was widely admired-first as a roadbuilding, budget-balancing governor of North Carolina, most recently as an Under Secretary of the Treasury in whom businessmen had full confidence. Almost everybody could find something to like about this hearty "liberal conservative" with the homespun manner and the gilt-edged bank account. And almost everybody wanted to give him a farewell party before he left...
...some of the nation's top writers "have always yearned" to tell them wasn't much. Articles by Jay Franklin, Raymond Swing and Roy Chapman Andrews had the old familiar ring. The photographic art spreads in color (Will Connell, David Eisendrath) and the gag cartoons (Alan Dunn, Gardner Rea) weren't up to the average of the people who made them...
...GARDNER DUNCAN Eagle Lake...
...Married. Gardner ("Mike") Cowles Jr., 43, publisher of the Des Moines Register & Tribune, chairman of the board of the Minneapolis Star-Journal & Tribune Co., president of Look; and Fleur Fenton, 33, Manhattan advertising consultant; both for the second time; in Stamford, Conn...
...approached his new job, nevertheless, in a very serious mood. Gardner jots down in a notebook great phrases by such men as Edmund Burke and Lincoln. He also likes to make apothegms of his own. One of them: "The common law of England represents the sifted and garnered common sense of our race." Last week he declared: "I accepted this post because I believe it to be at the crossroads of both Eastern and Western philosophy and of capitalistic and collective economy...