Word: greys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Guiding such frail missiles as Royal Coachmen and Grey Hackles, NATO's General Lauris Norstad fished a chill, rushing trout stream in the Salzburg Alps, put in a four-day vacation near Hitler's old aerie at Berchtesgaden. From morning golf and afternoon angling he took off just enough time to make a short statement for the American Forces Network on the preparedness of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization: "We still have some way to go, but we are now over the hump. Our strength is very real and very significant...
Matched with the great thoroughbreds of the past, sober, hard-working Round Table seems as ordinary as a stable pony. His finishing sprint cannot equal Citation's. His reddish brown coat is run-of-the-paddock compared to the lustrous grey of Native Dancer. He sometimes even has trouble getting out of the starting gate. All Round Table can do as an unobstrusive personality of the tracks is win horse races. This season the industrious four-year-old colt owned by Oklahoma Millionaire Travis Mitchell Kerr is an odds-on favorite to win the most gilded title in racing...
Frederic Garrett Donner, a slight (5 ft. 8 in.), bespectacled, grey-haired commuter, catches the 7:34 out of Port Washington, L.I. each workday morning for Manhattan's Penn Station, where he changes to the subway for his Columbus Circle office. Like many another straphanger, Donner has a habit of leaning out impatiently over the subway platform to see whether his train is coming. Last week the uptown train roared in for Fred Donner, 55. In a major shift of General Motors personnel, Financial Vice President Donner was tapped to succeed retiring President Harlow Curtice as boss...
...Colonel (Columbia) clothes Danny Kaye, hailed as "the world's greatest clown" by his pressagents and some critics not on the payroll, in a seedy business suit and black Homburg, and tints his hair middle-aged grey. Not a prat in the whole picture falls, and not one double-talked song or double-sung talk issues from the Silly Putty that is Kaye's usual movie face. The result of this hold-down of his celebrated talents is the most appealing and one of the funniest films Danny Kaye has ever made...
...Defiant Ones. Stanley Kramer's film about a Southern chain-gang escape, with drama and photography that are black and white, and characterizations that are expertly blended shades of grey; with Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier (TIME...