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Nine people, four of them Law School students, scrambled out of a two-story frame dwelling on Sumner Road at dawn yesterday before a raging fire that killed 65-year old William C. Gardner, operator of the rooming house, and seriously damaged first floor rooms...
Aroused by fumes seeping into her second story bedroom, Gardner's wife Laura raced downstairs at 5:15 o'clock and found the living room ablaze. She immediately roused her guests and then sounded the alarm, but the engines of the near-by Cambridge fire department arrived too late to save her husband, who, trapped in the flaming living room, tried vainly to escape through the window...
Former University students David G. Lyon '32 and Ernest Hampden were driven back by the intense heat and flames as they tried to push into the living room in an attempt to rescue Gardner. They too turned in an alarm and then battled the blaze unsuccessfully with a hand extinguisher...
...Williams) Douglas, 52, has been led far afield from his chosen career in mining. Last week, President Truman called him from the presidency of the Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York to be United States Ambassador to England. He will succeed North Carolina's O. Max Gardner, who died on the day of his departure for London...
Died. Oliver Max Gardner, 64, newly appointed Ambassador to the Court of St. James'5; onetime governor of North Carolina, onetime Under Secretary of the U.S. Treasury; of thrombosis; on the day he was to have sailed for England to begin his new job; in Manhattan (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...