Word: grayness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remember Sergeant Preston and his dog King, "On King! On you huskies!", brought to us by Quaker Oats, the cereal shot from guns. We remember the sidekicks: Vic, Tank Tinker, Jim and Penny and Clipper. We remember the villains; the Gray Ghost, Dr. Martelli, the secret agents with German accents, who called one another Klaus and Fritz and Karl. There were, of course, comic books, and we are not unfamiliar with Superman, Batman and Robin, or the Plastic Man. But mostly we listened, and imagined...
Divorced. Dan Topping, 47, co-owner (with Del Webb) of the New York Yankees, millionaire grandson of Metal Magnate Daniel Gray Reid (American Can Co.), onetime husband of Cinemactress Arline Judge,* Skater Sonja Henie and others; and Alice Lowthers Topping, 30, onetime Manhattan model; after six years of marriage, two children; in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico...
This simpleton idea shows up bright and clear, though, because the Brattle has a new projection trick that does away with its infamous flickering gray screen. The weakness, smallness and sunkenness of the Brattle's screen came from the fact that the Brattle wasn't designed as a movie theatre (or indeed as a theatre at all), and the projectors have to be behind the screen instead of over the balcony as in any other theatre. Being behind, the screen image is reversed, and to return the image to normal a prism previously had to be mounted in the projector...
...second impression came as he landed in Leningrad late in the afternoon, before the street lights were turned on, when the town was a dark gray. "The workers emerged from the metro and entered their cracker-box houses looking like small ants," he observed...
...study committee, with Mrs. Kerby-Miller as chairman, will include Kaysen, Mrs. Gray, Wilbur K. Jordan, President of Radcliffe, Kathleen O. Elliott, Dean of Instruction, and Reuben A. Brower, professor of English...