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Meanwhile, the Red and Blue was experimenting with a wide stroke range, never dropping below 38, and on one occasion, hitting 47. "Show 'em what a 50 looks like." Nash yelled from the Penn launch at that point, and Quaker stroke Gardner Cadwalader almost...
...Crew is very fickle" said Pennsylvania stroke Gardner Cadwalader with practiced conviction last week. "Last year, we beat Harvard one week and lost to them the next. But I think that this year's shell is made up of more interesting and diverse people than in the past...
...would certainly consider C. Douglas Dillon or John W. Gardner qualified to be on our high level commission-since they're on all high level commissions," he said...
Fiction Factory. To enjoy so many activities and still turn out as many as 7,000 words a day, Gardner exercised cast-iron discipline. As part of what he called his "fiction factory," on a 1,000-acre ranch at Temecula, Calif., he kept up to seven full-time secretaries busy transcribing the novels he dictated into a battery of tape recorders. For privacy, he worked in strategically located trailers and houseboats. When his first wife died in 1968, one of his secretaries, Agnes Jean Bethell, became Mrs. Gardner. She had come to work...
...prime, Gardner could finish a novel in six weeks. He was so prolific that a newspaper reviewer once intimated that the author had a ghost writer or two stashed away at the ranch. Gardner's publisher immediately offered $100,000 to anyone who could substantiate the story. "It would be worth $100,000," he said, "just to find someone who can write like Gardner...