Word: greys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago goat-bearded, grey-haired H. (for Henry) Noyes McKay, itinerant instructor in sales psychology, fell ill, repaired to Berkeley, across the Bay from San Francisco, to recover his health. A linguist and lecturer, McKay amused himself during convalescence by studying the diction and grammar of newscasters and radio commentators...
With only a few mechanics, timekeepers and the grim, grey mountains looking on, Mayor Jenkins coddled his thundering 2½-ton Mormon Meteor once around the course. Then in a twinkling, the wooden markers (set at soft, intervals) became a picket fence, the flat track a gigantic bowl of salt. Round & round he whirred. In less than 15 minutes, a huge blackboard was raised outside the timekeeper's shack: "New World's Record for 50 kilometers-172.915 miles per hour." An eyeblink later, another board went up, marking a new record for 50 miles. Then, in quick succession...
...less remarkable than this gadget is the small, grey man who thought it up-Professor Frederick Kurt Kirsten of the University of Washington. Born in Saxon Germany 55 years ago, Frederick Kirsten once terrified the town of Grossenhain by enveloping it in a smoke screen, ran away to sea at 17 in a three-masted windjammer, jumped ship in Tacoma with $1.50 in his pocket. He first sought shelter with a farmer whose daughter he eventually married. Someone persuaded him to enter the University of Washington. He worked his way through the school of electrical engineering, putting in eight hours...
...first head of the GHQ Air Force as temporary Major General, went back to a colonelcy when his tour of duty was over, came back as a permanent brigadier general of the line. A top-flight pilot at 56, Frank Andrews still flies his own plane, pokes his iron-grey head into thick weather along with the youngsters of the Air Corps...
...they do it is less a mystery than a knack. Typical of Stouffer's is its five-story restaurant on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue - dignified grey colonial brick front, tasteful Williamsburg interior decorations. Average lunch check is 60?, dinner 91?. Profit works out to 4.2? a meal. Food (all portions carefully measured) not only is good but looks good. The chain also goes in for comely waitresses - referred to only as "Stouffer girls." Stouffer's prefers them not too beautiful, with a touch of Bryn Mawr. Some of them have made as much as $75 a week...