Word: greys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with a Transit. For three years, good, grey Edwin Nourse, 66, a onetime vice president of Brookings Institution, had been chairman of Harry Truman's Council of Economic Advisers. The CEA had been set up to keep the President informed as to the complex economy's ups & downs and in-betweens. On the CEA with Nourse were ardent New Dealer Keyserling, 41, who helped Senator Robert Wagner write the Wagner Act, and John D. Clark, an economic and political anomaly who was onetime vice president and director of Standard Oil of Indiana...
...unknown young painter in Paris, Fernand Léger made his living retouching photographs, but he grew heartily sick of the fuzzy grey pictures he had to pretty up. A stretcher-bearer in World War I, he found a sort of solace in looking at cannons, planes and tanks. The milder beauties of nature were not for him, he decided. What he wanted his paintings to rival was the harsh power and blank precision of modern machinery...
...grey day at Jamaica last week, Jockey Gordon Glisson booted home his 249th winner of the year. No other U.S. jockey was close to him in the race to ride the most winners of 1949.* Half an hour later, while Glisson was trying for No. 250, he got in a jam on the far turn and his mount stumbled. He was pitched out of the saddle and lay still in the dirt until the ambulance arrived...
...dreaming. In his black, beige and bronze bathroom, with its motif of Nubian slaves, he plugged in his Loewy-designed Schick electric razor, used a toothbrush and tube of toothpaste he had modeled for Pepsodent, tore off the wrapper he had designed for Lux soap. Even the expensively tailored grey suit he put on was his own snugly fitting creation. Its special feature: inch-and-a-half cuffs on the sleeves, which could be replaced when frayed (a designer's fray quickly...
Charles Frend, the director, has the good taste and intelligence to use the vast, barren Antarctic as his leading actor. His cameras record, by the thoughtful, subdued use of Technicolor, snow and ice in an amazing variety of hues, from green to an ominous grey. As the party moves painfully from the coastal ice wall to the great glacier, and then to the inland plateau, every change in terrain and sky is effectively caught...