Word: greys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Personal Traits. A big (6 ft. 1 in., 215 Ibs.), smiling, pink-cheeked, blue-eyed Westerner, with thinning grey hair and an easy, friendly manner, he specializes in the homely, forthright phrase, a booming laugh, and a bone-crushing handshake; wears well-tailored blue, grey or brown suits, flashy ties, rimless glasses or glasses with colorless horn rims. He has a standing order that his office door remain open to all callers. He is a joiner: the American Legion, the Elks, the Masons (33rd degree and past Grand Master of California), the Native Sons of the Golden West...
...Paris Racing Club play to a 3 to 3 tie. "To hell with politics!" shouted French Dramatist Jean de Beer, one of the watchers. "This is the kind of thing we live for." Crowds at the Auteuil race track were not so elegant as before the war (definitely fewer grey toppers), but just as large...
...Rome last week, the supporters of democracy displayed courage. For two hours on a cloudy Sunday, 25,000 bronzed, well-fed, well-armed men paraded through Rome. There were red-plumed carabinieri on white horses, steel-helmeted army regulars riding along in maroon Dodge trucks, grim parachutists in steel-grey battle dress, over 100 tanks (including Shermans), scores of armored cars, 80 rumbling pieces of heavy artillery, and even 150 carrier pigeons, traveling in a special truck...
...Barbara Ann Scott, Calgary, an overgrown (pop. 100,000) cow town at heart, had put on its best pearl-grey Stetson and its best Stampede air. Calgarians cheered her when she skated away with the Canadian Women's Figure Skating Championship, packed her four exhibitions at the Glencoe Skating Club Carnival. They gave her a civic luncheon attended by 400 fans and fitted her out with a complete cowgirl outfit...
Last Wishes. On this dim morning last week, Yoshiko rose and calmly put on her grey, cotton-padded prison uniform. Six guards led her into the large vegetable garden in the rear of the prison...