Word: gray
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...draws Little Orphan Annie is balding, cigar-smoking Harold Lincoln Gray. Despite the fact that the New Deal-hating Chicago Tribune has been hitting relentlessly at gas-ration "muddling," bureaucracy and Government interference with private enterprise, Artist Gray has been-repeatedly warned by the Tribune-News Syndicate to keep controversial issues out of his strips. He ignored the orders because 1) he is publicity-wise, knows the value of having his strip talked about; 2) he is an all-out, old-line conservative Republican himself; 3) he finds it difficult to keep Annie "in tune with the times" and simultaneously...
Illinois-born (49 years ago), Harold Gray was a farm boy until he graduated from Purdue University in 1917, then became a $15-a-week reporter for the Chicago Tribune. Soon he was art-department handyman. In the early 1920s he helped Artist Sidney Smith (The Gumps), finally created a strip of his own, Little Orphan Annie, which is circulated in 345 papers and, with a circulation of approximately 16,000,000 daily and 20,000,000 Sunday, nets Artist Gray a six-figure annual income, enables him to live and work in an expansive home in Green Farms, Conn...
...rate the time had come when I must needs stir the stagnant gray matter away from thoughts of Portsmouth or Clearfields or the hills of Idaho. But what to say? Would the public like to know what goes on behind the closed doors of the good ship Briggs when the P. Listers are out frolicking...
...Auden, one of the brightest of the modern poetic lights, will address the first meeting of the Morris Gray Poetry Series next Wednesday at 4:30 o'clock in Emerson...
...well the job was done is indicated by the following words written by General Gray...