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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...University of North Carolina's confident Joseph Wayne Grimsley, 25, is one of seven children of a Wilson county tenant farmer. He graduated near the top of his class with a B.A. in international studies. Though softspoken, Grimsley has no doubt of his future: "I say shoot big. I'm aiming for Secretary of State or something in that line." Born in a farmhouse, Grimsley enlisted in the Army after high school, got his taste for diplomacy while serving at the U.S. embassy in Rome. Using the G.I. bill, he became the first of his family to attend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Top of the Heap | 6/16/1961 | See Source »

Existential Despair. The extraordinary thing about Monticello is its ordinariness. The habitual viewer knows that it has industry, because Winston Grimsley, a fuddy financier, is the grey eminence of these modest family fortunes. It has an airport -a villain once took off and fell from a plane whose flight originated in Monticello. It also has a sewer system known to those who saw two villains trapped in it for many a long mortal episode. It has a symphony orchestra-a villainess has set up an alibi at one performance. Only one human element, so essential to the life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Edgeville, U.S.A. | 3/17/1961 | See Source »

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