Word: greying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Author Meets Critic" panel, Soupy appears as Ernest Hemingbone, a grey-templed writer who fights a contrary pipe and indulges in literary guttersnipery. Soupy also fits cozily into the part of such irregular guests as a hooch-soaked Private Eye who couldn't find a clue in a roomful of corpses, an effete cowboy named The Lone Stranger, or a goateed bop musician who faints at the mention of Lawrence Welk...
Under the somber loom of London Bridge last week, six long-muscled watermen bent to their oars in six shells and began the long pull upstream to Chelsea. Traffic on the grey river ignored them, and they had to thread their way with care. Only a handful of spectator launches followed in their wake, but the six oarsmen were competing in the world's oldest boat race. After 2½ centuries, Thames rivermen still prize Thomas Doggett's loud livery and silver badge. The assurance that they will do so "forever" remains unbroken...
Ever since Defense Minister Duncan Sandys announced his radical decision last April to cut Britain's army almost in half, London's bleak, grey War Office has gone almost on a wartime footing of late nights and worried councils, to determine which of the nation's famed regiments should be spared and which must go.Last week 46-year-old War Secretary John Hare faced newsmen and a battery of television lights to break the news. In less than an hour, Hare sounded the Last Post for 51 major army units and many more smaller units...
...typewriter that inspires me," or that Miss Johnson won a spur from that loose-lipped but hard-writing outfit called the Western Writers of America, Inc., he may well suspect that he is in for a good fat slice from the gun-smoked hams of cowboy fiction-Zane Grey, William MacLeod Raine, or Clarence E. (Hopalong Cassidy) Mulford...
...commercial comes on the screen, but sponsors hate to believe it. In Detroit last week, executives of the Ford Motor Co. brooded over the results of a ten-city survey in which 2,600 set owners were quizzed within 30 minutes of the time five TV programs (Zane Grey Theater, Tennessee Ernie Ford Show, G.E. Theater, Ford Theater, DuPont Cavalcade) went off the air. The first jolt was the discovery that only 10.3% of the sample (270 people) had seen the shows in question. The next was the discovery that fully 31% of the viewers promptly left the room when...