Word: gray
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Court No. 8 at London's Old Bailey. The defendants: Gay News (circulation: 20,000), a fortnightly newspaper for homosexuals, and Denis Lemon, 32, editor of the periodical, who came to court with a button saying GAY NEWS FIGHTS ON in the lapel of his conservative three-piece gray suit. The offense: publishing a poem by James Kirkup, in which a Roman centurion describes his sexual relations with the body of the crucified Christ. Prosecutor John J. Smyth called the verses "so vile that it would be hard for even the most perverted imagination to conjure up anything worse...
...Paul Gray...
With his rimless glasses, thinning gray hair and predilection for white belts and shoes, Winpisinger hardly looks the part of a radical labor leader; nor do his background and hobbies fit the image of a firebrand. The son of a Cleveland printer, Wimpy started as a diesel mechanic, slowly worked his way up the I.A.M. ladder and today maintains a complete mechanical shop in his home in Wheaton, Md., where he repairs neighbors' lawnmowers as well as his own Oldsmobile and Chevy. But he is one labor leader who states proudly: "I don't mind being called...
...frontiersman who had earned his journalistic spurs on the brassy Denver Post. He soon became an ornament on William Randolph Hearst's New York American, along with Damon Runyon and Ring Lardner. Fowler's style was purple but compassionate: when Ruth Brown Snyder and her paramour Judd Gray were electrocuted at Sing Sing in 1928, his account of the execution-reprinted in full in this book-was a bitter indictment of capital punishment...
...face it, whether it was an eccentricity or madness, MacArthur's colossal egotism was what made him famous and then, in his fight with Harry Truman over the conduct of his last campaign, brought him down. It was what set him apart from the good gray men like Eisenhower, Marshall and Bradley, those modest servants of the democratic spirit on the battlefield. It made him one of the great characters in our military history. It is the great reason to do a film about him, and it is simply a shame to turn him into a dull fellow onscreen...