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Henry Brayton Gardner...
Last week, she accepted an out-of-court settlement of $2,500. But that was not enough. She also insisted on a personal letter of apology from former student Ed Gardner...
...William Cullen Bryant high school. The telephone rang. An excited relative reported that the name "Riblet" had just been used (as the name of a schoolmarm just like Miss Riblet) on the Duffy's Tavern program (NBC, Fri., 8:30-9 p.m., E.S.T.). But even worse, Ed Gardner, who portrays Archie and makes insult his profitable stock in trade, had slurringly called this character "Old Pianolegs...
White-haired Miss Riblet, "approaching 70," had never heard the like. Pianolegs, indeed! Soon, others called. At school, where she heads the English department, bobby-soxers tittered as Miss Riblet passed by. She went to the school archives. Sure enough, about 30 years ago she had taught Ed Gardner English I and English II. The records revived her memory. He had been a poor student, averaging a measly 70 to 75. He flunked his third term grammar, had to take it again. Mary Riblet, deciding it was time to rap her old pupil's knuckles, stomped...
Another publisher, more of a merchant than a crusader, died last week at 85. Gardner Cowles of Des Moines, a small town Iowa banker who turned to publishing at 42, made a fetish of circulation, made his fair, unexciting Register and Tribune an Iowa habit. Sons Gardner Jr. ("Mike") and John, more journalistically adventurous than their father, have spread the Cowles empire into the Minneapolis field, into five radio stations, a feature syndicate, Look magazine...