Word: greys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lean, grey-haired Max Conrad is a throwback to the romantic days when pilots flew for fun and adventure as much as for profit. But he got into flying by accident. After college he started an orchestra, took up flying only so that he could transport his band from place to place more conveniently. In 1929 he gave up the band and went into the charter-flying business in his home town, Winona, Minn...
...heyday of the International Boxing Club's strangle hold on U.S. boxing, Millionaire Sportsman James Dougan Norris ran the show in public, and a slim, grey-haired man named Paul John ("Frankie") Carbo ran a lot of it in private. Breaking up the Norris monopoly was relatively easy for the Justice Department. The underworld dominance of Frankie Carbo was something else again. Few figures in the fight game admitted knowing Carbo or dealing with him in any way. But last July the man known as "Mr. Grey" was finally indicted by a New York grand jury for illegal matchmaking...
...police searched for Carbo last month, a Los Angeles fight promoter named Jackie Leonard went before the California Athletic Commission, put the finger squarely on Mr. Grey and his managerial sidekick, a Philadelphia hoodlum named Frank ("Blinky") Palermo. Leonard had promoted most of the key fights of Welterweight Champion Don Jordan. He told a shady story. Last year, when Jordan was still only a challenger, Leonard got a phone call from Blinky Palermo. Blinky demanded that "we" be cut in for a piece of Jordan as a condition for getting a title fight with Virgil Akins. Leonard, together with Jordan...
...year post of administrative secretary of null a 13,000-member union made up of vaudevillians, circus performers and miscellaneous nightclub entertainers (ranging from Red Skelton at $40,000 per week to a chorus boy at $75). Sporting pearl tie pin, jeweled cuff links and charcoal-grey suit, Bright quickly earned a reporter's nickname, "Blackie." Against him stood Blondie herself-Actress Penny Singleton, fortyish, who was up for re-election as A.G.V.A. president. Said she, weepily: "I'm just a little 114-lb. girl going in there alone...
Mistakes in Typing. But grey though Shanghai became, it was still gayer than the rest of China. Thousands of "volunteer" workers were shipped out to forced labor, but hundreds of thousands of desperate peasants poured in. The population leaped from 5,000,000 to 7,000,000. By 1956, the baffled Reds gave up trying to reduce Shanghai. Factories were restored, new industries developed. Satellite towns housing 200,000 workers grew up on the city's expanding outskirts...