Word: gray
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bowman Gray, 50, moved up from executive vice president to president of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camel, Winston, Salem), second largest U.S. tobacco manufacturer (first: American Tobacco Co.). He succeeds Edward A. Darr, 67, who becomes vice chairman of the board and chairman of the executive committee; Chairman John C. Whitaker remains as chief executive officer. Bowman Gray, older brother of Defense Mobilizer Gordon Gray, began at Reynolds as a salesman in 1930 while his father was company president, became assistant sales manager in 1939, sales manager in 1952, executive vice president in 1955. A chief stockholder...
Russell dropped his cigar into an ashtray, and donned his wide-brimmed gray fedora for the trip from the Commander Bar to the dining room...
Perfectionist. In Keokuk, Iowa, after Service Station Attendant Dewayne Gray, 22, serviced a customer's car, getting it in tiptop shape, he grabbed $229 from the cash register, climbed into the car and drove...
President George R. Farnum, LL.B., LL.M., Litt.D., is a modest man in his late fifties. He wore a gray, double-breasted suit and top coat and blue knit tie, with horn-rimmed glasses and a black scarf. He arrived in a rush, and delivered an interview standing in the center of the room, pausing in his remarks only for a sporadic swipe at the glasses with a white handkerchief...
...quick succession, E.C. Tarlov renders a mixer romance with unique sensitivity, the Jester pummels the Crimson with sledge-hammer subtlety, and J.D. Stanley relieves the long gray columns of tedium with spasmodic cartoons...