Word: gardners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Educational Testing Service of Princeton, N.J., received $50,000 to explore methods of setting up an annual survey of American college applicants. The prospect of sharply increased enrollment in colleges was responsible for the grant, John W. Gardner, acting president of the Carnegie Corporation declared yesterday. "Data must be collected on an annual basis," he said, "and it should deal not only with sheer numbers of students, but also with their scholastic aptitude, achievement, and motivation...
Unwound in Technicolor flashbacks from the graveside of the heroine (Ava Gardner), the story has a few startlingly good lines and situations-and several embarrassingly bad ones. Ava is a slum-bred flamenco dancer in Madrid when a tyrannical millionaire turned moviemaker (Warren Stevens) shows up with his slavish pressagent (Edmond O'Brien) to look and maybe to buy. But Ava, no easy mark, will have none of it until the millionaire's cynical, broken-down director (Humphrey...
...motion was even made to tender the organization's support to gubernatorial candidate Robert F. Murphy. Murphy has stated that he would refuse endorsement by the A.D.A. state organization. The H.L.U. membership contented itself with endorsing the candidacies of Democrat James Gardner for Congress in the 13th District, and Democrat Summer Kaplan of Brookline for state representative. Kaplan himself addressed the group in the early stages of last night's meeting...
Bandleader Artie Shaw, 44, whose seven marriages (among his ex-wives: Novelist Kathleen Winsor, Cinemactresses Lana Turner and Ava Gardner) all started out well, seemed to be right back where he began. His current bride (No. 7). Actress Doris Dowling, gathered up their 13-month-old son Jonathan and moved in with her sister...
...Cuba, an old playmate of Actress Gardner's was having a quieter time. Retired Bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguín, Ava's escort in Spain and her guest later in Reno, was visiting with Author-Sports man Ernest Hemingway. Dominguin and white-bearded "Papa" put on cool shorts and tossed a hunting lance around for a while, but spent most of their visit together hunting fish...