Word: greys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meadows of Graves's obscurity are hedged round with a thorny but exhibitionist defense. He masks his face with bangs and a beard, and wears expensive grey flannel suits under an overcoat shabby enough for the radiator of a farmer's jalopy. To celebrate Christmas, Graves once gilded his beard and eyebrows, and he has been known to leave his shoes on the escalator of a Seattle department store while he himself took the elevator. He likes to talk a mystic mumbo-jumbo that leaves his admirers in open-mouthed confusion...
Before the broadcast, the Crimson head coach cast aside any fears that the Cambridge climate might scare him back to Michigan by putting his used grey car on the auction block and announcing that he expected a new Crimson car to be delivered some time in the next month...
Bazelon got the FBI to investigate. Its agents marked outgoing rayon by a secret process, and traced it through the grey market. The FBI estimated that 10-15% of North American and Bemberg's output was being resold at prices up to $4 a pound, four times the factory price...
Public Exit. That was proof enough for Bazelon. At a directors' meeting he insisted that the companies sell their rayon to more buyers, police each one to see that no rayon got into the grey market. The company said that was impossible...
Died. Robert M'Gowan Barrington-Ward, 56, editor of the great, grey London Times; after long illness; at Dar es Salaam, Tanganyika, East Africa. Lean, quiet Barrington-Ward became editor in paper-starved 1941, nevertheless helped restore to "The Thunderer" (which had subsided to a quiet echo of government policy) the old, forthright attitude that made it "free enough to cause some mutterings on the extreme Right and even some delighted flutterings on the Left...