Word: gardners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kingpin of Allagash Plantation, the last Maine outpost on the St. John River before it disappears into Maine's forests, is 6-ft., 190-lb. John Gardner. He could ride a log through white water be fore he was ten. At 20 he could lick every man within 50 miles...
This week, now nearing 40, John Gardner was busy doing something important about the war-born lumber shortage. Helping push toward the 1944 U.S. goal of 34 billion board feet, which Government officials gloomily doubt that the nation can meet, he was bossing the St. John's first big log drive (45 million ft.) in five years. His goal was the whitewashed village of Keegan, Me. There the Van Buren Madawaska Lumber Corp. is preparing, with government assistance, to reopen the East's biggest sawmill...
...Earle Stanley Gardner's whodunit, The Case of the Counterfeit Eye, a San Francisco eyemaker named Sidney O. Noles solved an optical mystery. Readers who looked up Noles's name in the San Francisco telephone book found it. No fictional character, Eye-Maker Noles sells glass eyes at $10 to $20 apiece, says the detective story was the best advertising he ever...
Taking over one of the regular free Sunday afternoon concerts at Gardner Museum in Boston, the Harvard Glee Club will sing next Sunday at 2 o'clock. Two duets from Buxtehude's Baroque Cantatas, "Erhore Mich Wenn Ich Rufe," by Schutz, and motets by Jacques Clement and Allegri will make up the first part of the program...
...chorus, not greatly reduced in size, but with a number of its members in uniform, will follow its Sanders Theatre concert with another at Gardner Museum, Boston, on February 6. On February 12 it will sing at Town Hall, New York, with the Sarah Lawrence College Chorus...