Word: graying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...identify the popular tune then being played. If he can do that he wins a nominal prize and qualifies for a chance at the Mystery Tune, a stumper that sounds tantalizingly familiar. The most recent: Get Out of the Wilderness, vintage 1850, with a marked similarity to The Old Gray Mare. If a listener identifies the Mystery Tune, he wins the fantastic largesse of radio. (Stop the Music prizes have averaged close to $20,000 in bonds and merchandise for the three numbers identified so far.) If nobody guesses right during the show, the prizes are fattened up for next...
Mature effectively extends his new lease on life as a sympathetic tough guy (Kiss of Death). Coleen Gray, as his high-principled girl friend, is pert and pretty but has very little to do. Reginald Gardiner, one of the villains, suffers very well as a man who has fallen so low that the mere dodging of death is all that he lives for. Peaceful Jones (Charles Kemper) is a refreshing anomaly from the tired list of western old-timers and dry-tongued farmers. After each Saturday-night drunk, he is chained to a tremendous log (Furnace Creek...
...DELMAR GRAY...
Also: Detlev F. Vagt '49, the Philip Washburn Prize for an essay entitled "The Trial of the Hebertists and the Rise of Revolutionary Nationalism"; Charles M. Gray '49, the History and Literature Prize; and Ernest J. Meyer '50, the Barrett Wendell Prize...
...hasn't collected news clipplugs, though, since last year, when his Adams House maid accidentally threw out his entire set of notices. Medals, he keeps, carefully folded in strips of gray flannel. They fill up three or four small boxes. No meet is too small for him in the off season. Last summer, after placing second in the Nationals, he went down to Manchester, Connecticut and won the hammer throw at Tinty's Flying Ranch track and field meet...