Word: gardners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blanchard, a refugee from Gardner, Mass., keeps his listeners occupied with zany projects. He does not openly suggest green hair or cat's whiskers, which seem to come naturally to his audience. He. has kept them busy mailing him dirt to "help fill up San Francisco Bay," or sending in empty orange juice cans to be used in building a 60-foot antenna. Twenty-five bottle caps earned a listener an "I Dread Red" card, and a usable joke is repaid with an "I Write for CBS" certificate. The jokes are frequently such morbid items as the jingle about...
...biggest names in the business took off for Europe-Clark Gable, Errol Flynn, Lana Turner, Ava Gardner, Gregory Peck -through a loophole in the tax law that forgives all if a taxpayer is out of the U.S. for 17 months out of 18. Van Johnson, Betty Hutton and Dorothy Lamour went back into vaudeville; Roz Russell and Bette Davis tried a retread on the legitimate stage; television sopped up Lucille Ball, Ann Sothern, Eve Arden and George Raft. Mike Romanoff, the royal restaurateur, made it final: "The motion picture community can no longer support...
...peak in the 1830s, when the search for whales had long since taken the ships into the Pacific. There, Stackpole believes, a Nantucket master named Captain Christopher Burdick deserves credit for being the first to sight the Antarctic continent. Others discovered new islands, gave them Nantucket family names, e.g., Gardner, Starbuck and Swain Islands...
...riot squad was called out in Naples to quiet down a mutinous theater audience and remind Crooner Frank Sinatra that the show must go on. Billed to appear with his cinemactress wife Ava Gardner, Frankie had already left a matinee crowd grumbling by showing up without Ava (supposedly ailing in Milan). The excitable evening customers, who had paid $5 to $7.50 for their seats, hooted and hollered when Sinatra - still solo - walked off after singing one song. Police restored or der, persuaded him to finish...
...Harry Gardner of Eliot, nosed out Dunster's Ken Culbert yesterday afternoon to win the House novice singles championship. Bill Cini of Winthrop placed third. Mike Halberstam of Dunster won the comp race, beating George Walcott of Eliot. Another Dunster man, Dirck Post, won the House wherry race, with Lowell's Erik Amfitheatrof second...