Word: graying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gimmick." Of all the funny-paper freedom fighters, none is more dogged than Harold L. Gray's 38-year-old Orphan Annie, a mop-haired moppet who has empty circles for eyes* and a bald, dinner-jacketed billionaire for a foster father. Last month, Annie and her Daddy Warbucks were holed up on a tropical island somewhere just off the map. Suddenly "enemy" planes appeared, carrying H-bombs. But Daddy and his pals were forearmed. Using what he calls his "ray gimmick," Daddy exploded the H-bombs prematurely, atomizing the attackers...
Although the front pages have been attractive, the make-up has not been consistently good. Occasional inside pages present the unrelieved gray of long banks of type, without pictures, charts, or anything else to encourage the reader. When the National Observer uses pictures, it uses them well; the page-long photograph of the Saturn rocket on the front of the first issue is striking, as is a huge shot of the Matterhorn in the second. But there still remain long stretches of unbroken type, which simply will not be read...
Vorenberg, a native of Cambridge, is a partner in the Boston law firm of Ropes and Gray. In the Harvard Law School he will teach in the field of corporation...
Your cover would make Charles Addams happy, Dorian Gray jealous, and Herblock anxious...
Popcorn, happily, remains, but it comes in different paper bags now, and it's sold behind a forbidding teak counter. The walls of the theatre are what Kramer calls a "strange gray"--though the ceiling hasn't been touched yet. And of course the name is all different. Still, the redecoration is damned attractive and long overdue. And the movies scheduled are refreshingly similar to the UT's standbys. One can hand over that extra thirty-five cents in the new admission charge almost cheerfully...