Word: gray
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beginning, blond, reticent Robert Hampton Gray, 27, was a student at the University of British Columbia, hoping eventually to become a physician. By 1940 he was a sublieutenant in the Fleet Air Arm. In five years he won a citation for dive-bombing attacks on the German battleship Tirpitz, a D.S.C. for sinking a Japanese destroyer. On Aug. 9, 1945, five days before war's end, he skimmed off the flight deck of the carrier Formidable, led an eight-plane attack on Japanese warships outside Tokyo Bay. Tearing through heavy flak, he piloted his riddled, blazing fighter to within...
Last week this "selfless and sustained devotion to duty" brought for "Hammy" Gray the British Empire's highest award for valor-the Victoria Cross. He was Canada's 13th V.C. and the sixth from British Columbia...
...about as inconspicuous an item in so-called comic strips today as drugs in drugstores. Krazy Kat died with its creator, the late George Herrimann. The Gumps, which in the days of the late Sidney Smith had a modest resemblance to middle-class U.S. life, has little now. Harold Gray's Little Orphan Annie, never any too real or too funny, has sunk so deep into moldy homiletics that it is now trying to make Tory a nice word by proving that only rabble revolted in 1776. Fantasy, outside of Crockett Johnson's Barnaby and Al Capp...
Under strict orders to stay out of China's still-limited civil war, the Americans were the targets of fierce Communist complaints that they were practicing "armed intervention." From beautiful Peiping, in the heart of embattled North China, TIME Correspondent William Gray cabled a survey of the U.S. dilemma and China's plight...
...ruddy, gray-haired county doctor, A. R. Walden, thought that a hero should come home to something better. He wrote a letter, mailed it with $100 to the Spartanburg Herald-Journal...