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...John W. Gardner, chairman of the Urban Coalition, will present next week's three Godkin lectures in a television studio rather than broadcast from Sanders Theater...
...earlier America seemed to have many eccentrics, such as Johnny Appleseed and Thoreau, both of whom heard "a different drummer." The Boston Brahmins produced Eleonora Sears, a ferocious walker who once hiked 110 miles nonstop. Mrs. Isabella Gardner shocked Beacon Hill by practicing Buddhism, drinking beer and strolling down Tremont Street with a lion. Until he died in 1957, "Silver Dollar" Jim West was Houston's favorite millionaire. He owned 30 cars, lived in a $500,000 castle, often wore a pistol and a diamond-studded Texas Ranger's badge. He lugged his own butter to expensive restaurants...
...James A. Gardner, assistant director of Admissions at Harvard, said yesterday that he received an enthusiastic response this year when he recruited in Mississippi, particularly in black schools...
After the Las Vegas wedding?attended by 37 still cameras, 14 motion-picture cameras and seven writers?show business set in. "Hah!" chortled Sinatra's ex-wife Ava Gardner, "I always knew Frank would wind up in bed with a boy." The gossip columnists were scarcely kinder. The pair's every waking hour seemed to make the wire services. During the affair, when she lopped off her hair, Dali called it "mythical suicide." After the separation, her behavior seemed more of the same. She flew off to India with her flower-child sister Prudence* for a month of transcendental meditation...
...buildings around it. Still, Chicago seems eager to utilize the space provided by the new skyscraper, as evidenced by the fact that 39% of its apartments and 42% of its offices have already been rented. The first tenant to move in was the Chicago advertising agency of Post-Keyes-Gardner Inc. (billings: $45 million), which took over the 35th floor. Despite the prestige of being located in Chicago's newest landmark, the agency will not use the John Hancock Center's name as an address on its letterheads. One of its clients is another insurance company...