Word: grayness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...choicest book fodder." Does it? Am I the only one who is weary of problem novels about problem people and of stories that suggest fun and games are to be had only extramaritally ? Mr. Algren would refuse to attend the wedding of Marjorie Morningstar to The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. Why should I have to officiate at the agonies of his Man with the Golden...
...Gray Flannel Suit (20th Century...
...Lieut. Gordon Gray Jr. no doubt appreciates the new speed record title you have bestowed upon him, but again he may not, for such a record is nonexistant. Gray holds the 500-kilometer closed circuit speed record and not the 50-kilometer speed record, which does not exist...
...Sydney airport, a sick, sad-faced man in his 60s, traveling under the name of Edward Gray, boarded an airliner and flew off for Rome. After almost nine years in Australia, he would probably never see it again. His true identity: famed Maestro-Composer Eugene Goossens, resigned as conductor of the Sydney Symphony, his spirit and reputation broken by his conviction and $225 fine for importing pornographic movies and pictures into Australia (TIME, April...
...Algren (see BOOKS) deplored authors whose prissy works ignore "the back rooms and gutters." Resolutely sticking to his conviction that Skid Row makes the choicest book fodder, Chicago Slum Runner Algren heartily stabbed at two contemporary upper-middle-class protagonists: "If Marjorie Morningstar and The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit were being married on my front porch at high noon, I wouldn't go to the wedding...