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Clifford Gray (athlete)

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founder Charles A. Whelan. They were divorced by 1937, McIntyre calling him a "plump bachelor". In 1939, his then fiancé Ruby Pennington was hospitalized with a fractured skull while traveling to New York to marry him.
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described him in his autobiography: "He would appear at Hollywood parties, a negative, easygoing type with a perpetual vacuous grin". In 1929 Gray married Clara Louise Cassidy, daughter of millionaire
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Gray's profile at www.sports-reference.com says that he died on November 9, 1969, but Andy Bull, who wrote
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Gray was known as a playboy and world-traveling socialite, chronicled often by columnist
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called him "mysterious as the wind... absolutely omnipresent and ubiquitous."
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Speed Kings: The 1932 Winter Olympics and the Fastest Men in the World
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Olympic silver medalists for the United States in bobsleigh
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Olympic gold medalists for the United States in bobsleigh
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Wallenchinsky, David. (1984). "Bobsled: Four-Man". In
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Index


bobsleigh
United States
Olympic Games
1928 St. Moritz
Five-man
1932 Lake Placid
Four-man
World Championships
1937 St. Moritz
bobsledder
Winter Olympics
Lake Placid, New York
1932
St. Moritz
1928
1937 FIBT World Championships
Chicago, Illinois
Henry T. Allen
Lake Forest Academy
Cornell University
Lew Fields
stock companies
Pathé
Famous Players
World
Clifford Grey
revue
Moulin Rouge
O. O. McIntyre

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