Word: greys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congressmen Murphy set the week's high mark in sightseeing-he saw the Falange headquarters and General Francisco Franco. Nattily togged out in a grey nylon shirt and grey suit, Murphy arrived at the guarded gate of El Pardo in a yellow government car, and was welcomed by the Caudillo in a blue civilian suit...
...morning sky was grey, and the paraders had bitter words for the priests who had been praying for rain to relieve Italy's drought. Superstitious Communists carried defiant signs: "Is it raining? Will it rain? Certainly not until after the Feast of Unita!" They were right; soon a hot sun enveloped the crowds as they watched bicycle races and boxing matches, played roulette, danced, drank, threw baseballs (50 lire for three shots) at caricatures of priests and bishops and of Premier Alcide de Gasperi and tough Interior Minister Mario Scelba, who was by far the most popular target...
...realist with a varnished style that switches from arty to operatic to documentary. His highway scenes give a sense of speeding movement and the ominous effect on the driver of cars hurtling past in a metallic rhythm. Occasionally he turns in a totally authentic shot, e.g., an oatmeal-grey Sunday morning in the produce market, the street forlorn and empty except for some work-worn truckers sitting on crates eating watermelon...
Comfortable busses, described last year as "passion pits," are rented for the occasion from the Grey Line. Langenthal says he has never had an accident nor arrived at Wellesley too late. Too late, that is, for a twenty-minute wait for a twenty-minute goodnight before the male constituency is rounded up for the homeward ride...
Simple Desires. To King, the reward was welcome but not surprising. His sugary three-quarter-time, he admits, has already made him "a little better than a millionaire." It has paid for a luxurious grey Georgian house in Chicago's suburban Kenilworth, a 680-acre Ottawa, Ill. feeder farm where cattle are fattened for market, and a 640-acre hunting reservation in Wisconsin. Last week, puffing thoughtfully on one of his 300 pipes (briars, clays and cobs), King explained why his style is so successful: "There are many people whose musical desires are very simple. We try to play...