Word: gray
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...edict of the court." Added he: "Views of leaders of both races will be invited." That was the last anyone ever heard of that sort of commission: under heavy pressure from Virginia's Southside politicians, Stanley finally named an all-white group headed by State "Senator Garland ("Peck") Gray, a leading Byrdman who was soon describing the Supreme Court's decision as "political and monstrous...
Then Frank ("Lover Boy") Sinatra, the picture's hero, lounged into town trailed by a variegated crew of camp followers that included Leo ("The Lip") Durocher, a couple of casual redheads, and a court jester named Mack ("Killer") Gray. Less than a day later, love began to die between Metro and Madison...
...Byam, 66, took a late-afternoon order for hamburgers for the Sinatra menage. "They called back and wanted two with mustard and one without," says Byam. "Then they said they wanted four. Then five. I got a little flustered. A couple of minutes later, in walked Sinatra and Killer Gray. Gray called me an old bastard. Sinatra grabbed me by my shirt collar and started dragging me around." Scared witless, Byam cried on the hotel manager's shoulder and went home to bed. Not until week's end was John Byam able to get back...
When Sheriff J. G. (for James Gray) Treloar was accused of beating up and fatally injuring a Negro prisoner in his jail, few in north Mississippi's red clay Yalobusha County expected much to come of it. But when a grand jury indicted Treloar for manslaughter, white citizens in the county seat of Water Valley moved fast. Remembering the "bad publicity" of the Emmett Till case three years before in neighboring Tallahatchie County (TIME, Oct. 3, 1955), they dissuaded Water Valley Negroes from hiring an N.A.A.C.P. lawyer, instead chipped in for a white attorney to act as the district...
...this time plainly intended to let someone else lead the way-and take the political walloping that was sure to follow. Moreover, Big Steel probably needed a raise least, because of increased efficiency in its operations (see below). Last week Armco Steel's President R. L. Gray finally took the step, raised the price on flat rolled products (35% of all steel production) $4.50 a ton. The rest of the industry, including Big Steel, joyfully followed, spreading the raises to virtually all steel production. Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver promptly called his Senate Antitrust and Monopoly subcommittee into session...