Word: gardners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Divorced. Gardner ("Mike") Cowles Jr., 43, president-publisher of the Des Moines Register & Tribune, founder-publisher of Look; by Lois Thornburg Cowles, 37; after 13 years, two children; in Des Moines...
...Affairs' editorial board, board of trustees and list of charter members were studded with such bigwig names as James Landis, Will Clayton, Gardner Cowles, William Benton. Pardridge had dreamed of just such a board when he was an unpromising student at the University of Chicago. There he had flunked 27 courses (freshman English four times), remained a freshman three years, never did get his degree. Later he wound up on the Chicago faculty as an $1,800-a-year research assistant in geography...
Hour of Mystery (Sun. 10 p.m., ABC). The Case of the Lame Canary by Erie Stanley Gardner, starring Victor Jory...
Chairman of the society's research committee is famed Psychologist Gardner Murphy, of Columbia University. With his backing, Miss Laura Abbott Dale, editor of the society's Journal, rounded up 54 college students, put them to work shooting dice. To rule out physical skill, she had them roll the dice four at a time, down a specially built washboard chute with 55 baffles, made each subject try for every number (from one to six) in turn. Results...
Editors like Gurney Williams consider Gardner Rea, veteran of 37 years in the business, and Virgil Partch, a comparative newcomer, two of the top artists in the country. (But Peter Arno gets top pay. When he bothers to turn out a cartoon the price is reputed to be $1,000.) Partch, no Wednesday go-to-market man, lives in North Hollywood, Calif., has never been east of New Mexico, tells editors he can make his characters just as gruesome in the West as he could in New York...