Word: gray
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hannah H. Gray, Yale's provost, became acting president when Brewster left and was considered a top candidate for the post. But early this week she accepted an offer to become president of the University of Chicago, an apparent indication that her prospects at Yale had diminished...
Kanfer, Senior Writer R.Z. Sheppard and Associate Editor Paul Gray write most of TIME'S reviews. "To find a good book to review and to get background, we each read up to six books a week," says Gray, who once taught English at Princeton. Says Sheppard, who was editor of the book supplement of the now defunct New York Herald Tribune: "The question people always ask is, 'Do you speed-read?' No, I don't. Reading is a pleasure; like eating or loving, it should not be rushed...
...ready to have piglets and then become part of her larder; hails her goat April, a daily source of milk; and shows all the joy of a Washington dirt farmer in her modest (65 acres) spread. Then she marches through a stand of Douglas fir to the slate-gray pebbled beach that fronts her property, and gazes fondly out at the waters she has known since childhood. Bending, she picks up a beached starfish, studies the specimen for a moment, and tosses it back into the water?"to preserve the natural balance," as she puts...
...while, she lived in a custom 8-ft. by 28-ft., self-propelled motor home with her constant companions?a miniature gray poodle named Jacques and a huge, dignified Scottish deerhound named Ghillie. She moored the $18,000 bus on a dairy farm in Maryland. A Government limousine would pull up every morning, and Ray and her two dogs would be whisked to the AEC offices. At her suggestion, the AEC was reorganized in 1975 into two agencies and Ray then moved on to become Assistant Secretary of State for scientific affairs. When Secretary of State Henry Kissinger dodged...
Murder Ink: The Mystery Reader's Companion. "Perpetrated" by Dilys Winn (Workman Publishing; 522 pages; $14.95 hardcover, $7.95 paper). For devotees of mysteries, thrillers and spy stories, this is the unputdownable reference work and ultimate argument settler. How many of those "little gray cells" did Hercule Poirot have? (One trillion.) Nero Wolfe's actual weight? (One-seventh of a ton.) Which British poet laureate and which U.S. President wrote murder stories? (C. Day Lewis and Abraham Lincoln.) With 150 contributions about crime writers, cops, critics, scientists, ex-spies, a stoolie, a butler who didn...