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This time, the juniors gave a supper for Eva Mae, and the whole town turned out for graduation exercises last week. Eva Mae got a diploma, a certificate for three years of perfect attendance, and a compliment from Principal A. M. Gardner, who said that her marks were "above medium." Somebody asked her how she had liked school. Said Eva Mae: "Well, it was awfully strange...
...judges for the trial debate were George K. Gardner '11, professor of law Frederick C. Packard, Jr. '20, associate professor of speech; and Howard L. Miller, Jr., teaching., fellow in public speaking...
...Gardner lives on a 3,000-acre ranch about 100 miles from Los Angeles, with a staff of eight-including a business manager, secretaries and household help. His mail is peppered with requests for legal aid, and frequently he rides forth to aid the underdog. His conditions for taking on such cases are unvarying: the person must have been convicted of a major crime, he must have no money, he must have exhausted all other legal means...
...lawyer for last-resort cases, Gardner works without fees, has sprung two men out of the death cell and helped get two others out of the penitentiary. But Erie Stanley Gardner, counsel for the defense, is no sentimentalist. "There are a lot of guilty people in jail," says he. "You'd be surprised, but your chances of being murdered are pretty good...
...author, Gardner is devoted to whodunits, believes they have won a firm place in U.S. letters. "We talk of escape literature and look down our noses at it. But all literature is a form of escape. The readers demand it, I am interested in readers. To hell with editors. You can dig your own literary grave if you listen to editors. The detective story is a far more inspiring sermon than one from the pulpit. It reassures the reader about life, makes him believe that justice always triumphs. The western story and the detective story go hand in hand. They...