Word: greys
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Bowles still wears Madison Avenue's grey flannel suits and button-down-collar shirts, has rarely been seen in formal clothes. For recreation he is a real canvas sailor, reluctantly gave up his 50-ft. yawl for a small sailboat when his children grew up. Twice married (he and his first wife were divorced in 1933), he has five children; Son Samuel passed up a Rhodes scholarship to teach school in Nigeria; Daughter Cynthia did a stint as a nurse for the World Health Organization in India...
...Morphy's shade wavers through a series of chess triumphs (actual) and a career as a Confederate agent in Paris (imagined), the reader notices a few things about the Keyes technique. There are no purple patches-only grey ones- and there are no onstage sword fights or seductions. Novelist Keyes's strong point is research, and where Frank Yerby or Taylor Caldwell might liven the soggy chapter by unhooking the heroine's bodice, Morphy's chronicler merely recreates a chess game. While it is open to question how much the author knows about chess, the royal...
Under the grey, wintry skies of Paris. the foreign and defense ministers of the world's greatest politico-military alliance gather this week. At NATO's annual meeting, the agenda, as always, is simple: the defense of Europe. But this year there is a mood that old assumptions are outdated, old battle doctrines need revision, old relationships have shifted...
Dominating the proceedings from offstage was Racketeer Frankie Carbo, 56, known to business colleagues as "The Uncle," "The Southern Salesman," "Mr. Grey" and (in his younger, hungrier days) "Jimmy the Wop." Once convicted of manslaughter and five times arrested on suspicion of murder, Carbo is currently serving a two-year sentence for illegally operating as a boxing manager and matchmaker. In Carbo's absence, his pervasive influence over the boxing world was detailed by a man who should know: Truman K. Gibson Jr., 48, Negro ex-secretary of the now defunct ring monopoly, the International Boxing Club...
Burl Ives Sings "Little White Duck" and Other Children's Favorites (Columbia). Big Daddy thrums his guitar and sings Mr. Froggie Went A-Courtin', The Grey Goose, and the rest, with a voice that is clear as a mountain stream and cozy as sitting by the fire. In the path of Burl's music, the weather of a child's mind seems to turn sunny, rapt, calm...