Word: brass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Zita Heinmuller, 19, appeared to be the next glamor girl to be trumpeted to literary fame for a fee. Brass-lunged Trumpeter Russell Birdwell (who puffed Nancy Bruff's The Manatee into a brief bestseller) worked on beauteous Zita bright & early: before Zita started her book. The new authoress, daughter of the president of the Longines-Wittnauer Watch Co., Inc. ("the world's most honored watch"), dashed off an outline, flew off to Havana to begin padding it out. Declared Birdwell: she would have the help of "research workers" who were beautiful models. Book's title: Park...
...appalling scene sent newsmen scurrying from the wharf to fill luridly indignant columns. For four days the story raged. High Army brass seemed to think it was all a teapot-tempest. "Conditions," they said, "are no worse than the Japs accustomed others to." At Canberra the Government seemed to share this eye-for-an-eye philosophy. Officials turned their faces resolutely away from a blizzard of protesting telegrams, tried vainly to shift the blame to the Jap authorities, MacArthur, the Chinese or anyone else handy. Complained one M.P.: "The Government should have forbidden the press to cover the story...
...question about it. Last week, at a press conference in Rome, the starched boss of the Mediterranean theater, famed as a stickler for propriety and protocol, sounded off. He had ordered all letters to the once-popular "Mail Call" column of Stars and Stripes "screened" by the brass before publication...
...military mind was closing in on the G.I. journals. Fortnight ago the Berlin edition suffered a body blow. The brass ruled that any letter to its "B-Bag" section, the doughfoots' one safety valve, must bear the letter writer's name, rank and serial number (not for publication, but in case the letters called for action). Under a rule like that, nobody was likely...
...staff of the Pacific Stars and Stripes had been fighting its own little war-mostly against its superior officers. In January the G.I.s publicly accused the "brass" of trying to muzzle their Tokyo daily. A month later Sergeant Kenneth Pettus, the managing editor, and Corporal Barnard Rubin, the star columnist, were fired from.the paper, ordered to Okinawa for reassignment. Explained an officer: the two had flunked a "loyalty check...