Word: clayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels); William N. Reynolds, its executive committee chairman; Board Chairman S. Clay Williams, former NRA chairman; President James A. Gray; Vice President James W. Glenn; Sales Manager Edward A. Darr...
...Clay-tile Tycoon Walter S. Dickey, who bought the Journal in 1921, bashed in his fortune trying to buck the Star. Utility-man Henry L. Doherty, who bought 50% control in 1931, sank about $300,000 a year in the Journal (plus $250,000 a year in utility advertising). His only profit: whatever satisfaction came from his hysterical series of libel and conspiracy suits totaling $54,000,000 against the Star for its hard-hitting campaign for lower gas rates (they were thrown...
...committee for the ball has announced the list of Harvard ushera: Robert Barnet '42, Charles 3. Bridge '42, Winthrop L. Carter, Jr., '42, George R. Clay '43, Peter Daumann '42, Eugene D. Keith '42, W. Barton Harvey '43, Peter MacDowau '42, Harry Newman, Jr., '42 Coles Phinby '42, Stanford L. Opiner '42, John C. Robbins '42, Paul C. Sheeline '43, and David B. Sterns...
Resemblance to U.S. art ended in one group which turned out to be the hit of the show; eleven primitive charcoal and clay drawings on eucalyptus bark, done, not by Australia's high-brow artists, but by the paint-and-feather-clad, boomerang-throwing natives of the Australian bush. Showing animals, hunting scenes and spirits, these queer, childlike pictures were as unrealistic and imaginative as the screwball drawings of famed German Expressionist Paul Klee (TIME, Oct. 21). Some showed kangaroos and kookaburra birds drawn with their internal organs visible X-ray-wise through the skin. One, depicting a spirit...
...different tastes of the three springs; the Gudgers' kitchen bucket with its "fishy-metallic kind of shine and grease beyond any power of cleaning"; the exact texture of the house's pine siding; the stinking clay yard, and "the chilly and small dust which is beneath porches"; a Mark Twainesque catalogue of livestock from cats and mules to the "clutter of obese, louse-tormented hens"; an inventory of the contents of every house, outhouse and room, including the smell of everything the author could (as he softly put it) "take odor...