Word: greys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Down the Great West Road from London Airport, on 417 through Hounslow, Chiswick, Hammersmith and South Kensington, the dove-grey, open-top Rolls-Royce rolled into the heart of the great grey city. A small Stars and Stripes fluttered from the left fender; the license plate read "U.S.A. 1." From hundreds of thousands of Londoners thronging outside rows of semidetached brick houses, leaning out of town mansions, tumbling out of pubs, standing six deep in Hyde Park, the shouts went up: "Glad to see you, Ike," "Welcome," "Good for you, Ike." As the Rolls-Royce rolled into Grosvenor Square, from...
...Raisin in the Sun. There is no sun in this Chicago Negro tenement, but the characters who live there light up Lorraine Hansberry's first play with love, humor and dreams of escape. J.B. Tailored by Archibald MacLeish, Job in grey flannels cuts an impressive theatrical figure, even if he does lack the fierce language and logic of his Biblical ancestor...
...emergency," lock the schools under his gubernatorial police powers. But Little Rock's city fathers knew better than write Faubus anything, calmly put their faith in Police Chief Gene Smith, a hulking (6 ft. 2½ in., 213 Ibs.), steel-eyed man whose uniform is a grey business suit and a white straw...
...save his old flagship Big E from the scrap heap. "Remember!" he rasped. "Scrapped ships will not rest peacefully in deep blue waters beside the gallant Lexington, Wasp, Hornet, Houston, Atlanta, and all the brave others. Our Navy must remain strong!" Last week, on Fishers Island in the peaceful grey waters of Long Island Sound, Bull Halsey, 76, died in his sleep of a heart attack...
...play of three old pros, who are hustling like sandlotters. On third, Junior Gilliam, 30, is having the best season of his seven-year major-league career (.312), has been on base in more than 95% of the games he has started. At 32, Outfielder Duke Sniders hair is grey, but his steel-blue eyes are as sharp as ever, his gimpy knee is responding to cortisone treatments, and his average is up to .323. At 35, ham-handed Gil Hodges had hit 19 homers and driven in 62 runs when he was forced out of the line-up last...