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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With her genteel English-Southern accent, her silver-haired good looks, and her lavish parties, Mrs. Janet R. Gray was one of Atlanta's most popular hostesses. At her ranch-style home on 15 wooded acres in suburban Doraville, the charming divorcee entertained scores of Atlantans at parties beside her swimming pool hard by the circular exercise track for her show horses. She made friends everywhere. On regular visits to the beauty parlor downtown she always tipped the operator $2 for a shampoo, $5 for a silver rinse. By entering her blonde, buxom niece, Candace Victoria Laine ("I call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Cash & Capital Gains | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

Raising prize cocker spaniels, everyone knew, was Janet Gray's hobby. She filled her kennels with more than 40 purebred cockers, including buff-colored Ch. Carmor's Rise and Shine (price: $5,000), judged Best in Show at Manhattan's 1954 Westminster Kennel Club competition, dogdom's Olympiad. Mrs. Gray worked as business manager of the small Decatur Clinic, about ten miles northeast of Atlanta, and everyone realized that she could not live so luxuriously on a bookkeeper's pay. Her friends agreed that she must be "independently wealthy." Last week they discovered how independent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Cash & Capital Gains | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

Born. To Marisa Pavan, 25, actress of screen (The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit) and TV (Antigone, Dominique), twin sister of Italian-born Cinemactress Pier Angeli, and Jean Pierre Aumont, 47, French cinemactor (The Seventh Sin): a son, their first child, his second; in Santa Monica. Name: Jean Claude. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 26, 1957 | 8/26/1957 | See Source »

...Study in Gray...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: The Potting Shed | 8/14/1957 | See Source »

...front of "G" entry, two imposing preppy types were talking to a pair of Summer School lovelies. One of the males was unmistakeably a Princeton. He wore the traditional dark gray shetland sweater, button-down shirt, English-style gray flannels and cordovans. The other person was attired in white varsity-letter sweater, turned inside out, of course, freshly pressed khakis, white athletic socks, saddle shoes and crew-cut. "Probably a Yale," thought...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr., | Title: Notes From Underground | 8/8/1957 | See Source »

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