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There is a lot about this writer in the NYTimes archives. In fact, his lyrics have been used into at least the 1990s. Unfortunately, the price for viewing the NYTimes archives is a paid subscription, which I lack. If someone who has a Times subscription could go through the archives to expand the article, I would appreciate it. Cheers, :) Dlohcierekim 14:20, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
Why has the spelling "Gray" been used for this article? Grey spelled the name with an "e", as does the Dictionary of National Biography, as does Who's Who, as did The Times in its obituary and passim. It would be correct to rename this page, and remove the redirect. Does anyone have the expertise to do such a thing? - Tim riley ( talk) 07:11, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
I have just noticed that an editor has declared much of the text inaccurate, but has not provided any evidence in support of that assertion. As the previous version is well cited I have reverted pending evidence from the editor who made the unreferenced changes. Tim riley ( talk) 00:04, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
Gray was the Showbiz-man, Grey the Sportsman. They were different persons, with different Vitadates. Sometimes a reporter but them together. Since then this mistake ist spread all over the world. But a mistake is a mistake. This article is about two different persons. Marcus Cyron ( talk) 20:16, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
[left] According to this article Grey's family discovered his Olympic medals after his death. If so, how would they have obtained the medals of someone completely unrelated to the songwriter. BTW, the other bob-sleigher mentioned in the above link also has an article here: Billy Fiske, who was later wounded in action and died while flying for the RAF. A quick image search shows a couple of photos of the US Olympic team and the Grey/Gray shown is not the songwriter: [2] and [3]— Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.24.215.49 ( talk) 10:40, 29 November 2014 (UTC)
More research by Andy Bull confirms Grey/Gray were two different people [4] (sorry, I'm not experienced enough to dig in and sort out the page) Oharar ( talk) 08:05, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
I'm no expert on the bobsleigh sport but might it be implausible he was the same as the Olympic bobsleigher? The lyricist was 41 in the year of the first Olympic competition and 50 in 1937. Have older people competed in Olympic bobsleigh? Cloptonson ( talk) 10:34, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
![]() | A fact from Clifford Grey appeared on Wikipedia's
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There is a lot about this writer in the NYTimes archives. In fact, his lyrics have been used into at least the 1990s. Unfortunately, the price for viewing the NYTimes archives is a paid subscription, which I lack. If someone who has a Times subscription could go through the archives to expand the article, I would appreciate it. Cheers, :) Dlohcierekim 14:20, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
Why has the spelling "Gray" been used for this article? Grey spelled the name with an "e", as does the Dictionary of National Biography, as does Who's Who, as did The Times in its obituary and passim. It would be correct to rename this page, and remove the redirect. Does anyone have the expertise to do such a thing? - Tim riley ( talk) 07:11, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
I have just noticed that an editor has declared much of the text inaccurate, but has not provided any evidence in support of that assertion. As the previous version is well cited I have reverted pending evidence from the editor who made the unreferenced changes. Tim riley ( talk) 00:04, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
Gray was the Showbiz-man, Grey the Sportsman. They were different persons, with different Vitadates. Sometimes a reporter but them together. Since then this mistake ist spread all over the world. But a mistake is a mistake. This article is about two different persons. Marcus Cyron ( talk) 20:16, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
[left] According to this article Grey's family discovered his Olympic medals after his death. If so, how would they have obtained the medals of someone completely unrelated to the songwriter. BTW, the other bob-sleigher mentioned in the above link also has an article here: Billy Fiske, who was later wounded in action and died while flying for the RAF. A quick image search shows a couple of photos of the US Olympic team and the Grey/Gray shown is not the songwriter: [2] and [3]— Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.24.215.49 ( talk) 10:40, 29 November 2014 (UTC)
More research by Andy Bull confirms Grey/Gray were two different people [4] (sorry, I'm not experienced enough to dig in and sort out the page) Oharar ( talk) 08:05, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
I'm no expert on the bobsleigh sport but might it be implausible he was the same as the Olympic bobsleigher? The lyricist was 41 in the year of the first Olympic competition and 50 in 1937. Have older people competed in Olympic bobsleigh? Cloptonson ( talk) 10:34, 2 July 2022 (UTC)