Word: grayness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hours a day managing a bookstore with a boss as nervous as a test pilot going to the moon, put up with demanding customers asking hundreds of asinine questions, and then go home at night to a neurotic husband trying to sell insurance. I've discovered 15 new gray hairs and a birthday is coming up. What else have I left except the consolation of a good book...
...answers to these and sundry other questions are offered in a fictional session of bland man's buff by Sloan Wilson, the man who did more for gray flannel suits than Brooks Brothers. The novel's key setting is Pine Island, Me., a summer retreat and a kind of "perverted Garden of Eden from which one was expelled for the sin of poverty." Among the unexpelled nouveau poor are the Hunters, who eke out their stay as genteel innkeepers. Fortyish Bart Hunter is an existentially minded drunkard whose most cutting insult is to call someone "cheerful." His disillusioned...
...quickly replied. Said P. Lorillard President Lewis Gruber: "Our advertising has been and is scrupulously honest and truthful. Our claim has been a simple statement of fact-Kent filters best of all the leading filter brands. These are facts, and they are documented." Added R. J. Reynolds President Bowman Gray: The figures used in the congressional report were published in a magazine (Consumer Reports) in March 1957; since then, Reynolds has improved its filter to reduce nicotine by 32%, tars by 27%. "It would appear that the figures quoted in the committee's report were hardly the latest available...
With a mixture of incredulity and nostalgic delight, Britons learned last week that staid St. John's Wood had sustained and harbored a liaison of Edwardian style right into the welfare-state era. In a London court, one Jacqueline Gray, a 41-year-old onetime model, sued 81-year-old Sir Strati Ralli, Bt. (family motto: "Keep to the straight path") for the return of jewelry worth $34,000. Miss Gray charged that Sir Strati had taken the jewelry from her to have it insured, and had refused to return...
...visited her in the evening, and you don't wear jewelry like that in the daytime." The judge was sympathetic: "An allowance of ?40 a week taxfree, with other bills paid," he observed, "does not sound like a very mean allowance for the casual interviews they had. Miss Gray received ?38,000 over the years, a fortune in itself...