Word: gardners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...CASE OF THE DROWNING DUCK- Erle Stanley Gardner-Morrow ($2). Perry Mason, hired to investigate an 18-year-old California murder mystery, saves a likable youngster from the results of his hocus-pocus with detergents, runs a crook to earth, and solves two contemporary poisonings. Enough plot and action for two novels...
...added to the water). This week I received from book publishers William Morrow and Co. an advance copy of a mystery novel, The Case of the Drowning Duck. The jacket shows a duck expiring in a goldfish bowl and has a note from the publishers saying that Erie Stanley Gardner, the author, was inspired by TIME'S item. TIME Marched On, fast...
...Research Library in Washington, D. C., The Fogg branches into a network of specialized divisions. The Department of Conservation is probably the most fascinating with its tasks of detecting art fakes and of restoring damaged works. Under George L. Stout, who spends part of his time at Boston's Gardner Museum, is arrayed a staff of six specialists in this line...
Born. To Margaret Dowd Corcoran, 29, and New Dealer Thomas Gardner ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran, 41: their second child, first son; in Washington. Weight...
...Whiteside, the bearded book of Bartlett's Nasty Quotations, who is this country's greatest argument for mercy killing. Bette Davis, pleasingly different without a neurosis or two to keep her company, plays the role of his long-suffering and fast-talking secretary with sparkle and deftness. And Reginald Gardner is more like Noel Coward than Noel Coward himself...