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...children truants. The Wolfes politely turned down a request that they return the children to school, so last week the board met to take action. The law, in strictest letter, was on the board's side, yet from District Prosecutor Wayne MacGregor Jr.-supported by State Attorney General Graydon Smith-came an unexpected defense. Asked MacGregor: "May a person of school age no longer reside in a locality of his own choosing unless it is within walking distance of a school or is served by a school bus?" If the children could not get to school from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Wilderness School | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

...Question ... In San Diego, arraigned before U.S. Commissioner Betty Graydon on a dope-smuggling charge. David Hedrick was asked what he did for a living, replied: "Well, ma'am, lately I've been forging checks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 11, 1957 | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

Unfortunatly, Bernard Miller has not mastered Professor Desiderio's volatile Spanish character, and his performance is forced as a consequence. Mary Graydon, however, is delightfully human as the Lady, and John Ahern is lively in the small role of a reporter. The play runs a little long, but perhaps a more convincing central performance would have helped...

Author: By Stephen Addiss, | Title: The Lady and Her Sources and The Bald Soprano | 10/26/1956 | See Source »

...Lampoon again entered the much abused field of parody and satire of Harvard institutions with a remarkably polished publication entitled Mondays at Nine or Pedagogues On Parade. Paul Brooks '32 and T. Graydon Upton '31 contributed a great deal of consistently fine and funny light verse. Carl E. Pickhardt's '31 caricatures of famous professors of that era--Barret Wendell, Charles T. Copeland, Irving Babbit, George Santayana, and G. L. Kittredge--are excellent drawings in the style of Sir Max Beerbohm. Part of the verse that accompanies the caricature of Kittredge follows...

Author: By Edmund H. Harvey, | Title: A Half-Century of Harvard in Fiction | 12/1/1955 | See Source »

...GRAYDON Rio de Janeiro, Brazil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 18, 1949 | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

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