Word: gardners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...CASE OF THE CARELESS KITTEN- Erie Stanley Gardner - Morrow ($2). Another brisk, shrewdly plotted and forthrightly told Perry Mason story, in which the adroit lawyer-sleuth cooperates with an intelligent and wary police lieutenant. Mason's analysis of feline antics supplies the payoff clue to an elusive killer and a pair of carefully contrived murders...
Sued for Divorce. Joe Yule Jr. ("Micky Rooney"), 21, veteran cine juvenile; by Ava Gardner, 19-year-old Hollywood newcomer from North Carolina; after eight months of marriage; in Los Angeles. "I just wasn't happy married to him," she explained. He said nothing. She said he earned $5,000 a week, asked a share in joint property she estimated at $200,000, plus "reasonable alimony...
...could no longer be distinguished within her shroud of smoke and steam. But messages beep-beeping from the sparks' cabins aboard the cruiser and the destroyers told the story. "The engines are still okay. Fire hasn't got below B deck. The captain (Coast Guard Commander Harold Gardner Bradbury) thinks it will burn out the superstructure...
With him will go Gardner Cowles, Elmer Davis' associate in the OWI, and brother of John Cowles, who accompanied Willkie to England; and Joseph Barnes, former Moscow correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, now chief of the International Press and Radio Bureau of OWI's Overseas Branch...
They laid out three overall divisions. Gardner Cowles Jr., absent-eyed but able publisher of the Des Moines Register and Tribune and Look, president of Iowa Broadcasting Co., a new face on the official Washington scene, was brought in to head the OWI branch on domestic news. Sad-faced, elongated Playwright Robert Sherwood takes over the dissemination of over seas news. Archibald MacLeish, whose OFF had been swallowed up in the reorganization, becomes head of the "Policy Development Branch." His job: relationships between OWI, the policy-forming officials of Federal agencies, and between OWI and representatives of the United Nations...