Word: brass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...AFTERNOON CONCERT. Mozart, Cosi fan Tutti overture; Schumann, Trio no. 3 in G--opus 110; Lo Presti, The Masks; Petzold, Sonata no. 2 for Brass; Sibelius, Peleas et Melisande; Dohanvi, Quintet for Pf. and strings; Haydn, Symphony 180 in D; Schubert, Deux Marchas Characteristique; Khrennikov, Symphony no. 1 in B flat; Handel, Suite for Harpsichord...
...Rock Y. Brass. In 1952 Anderson wrestled down his longtime loyalty to the Democratic Party and backed Dwight Eisenhower for President. (Anderson finally changed his registration to Republican in 1955.) After the election, recalling Anderson from the manpower-commission days, Ike asked "Engine Charlie" Wilson, his nominee for Defense Secretary, to look Anderson over as a prospect. Wilson tapped Anderson to be Secretary of the Navy. "Charlie Wilson claims he discovered Bob Anderson," the President later told a Texas visitor. "Actually, I was the one who found him. If I had a dozen more like Bob Anderson, I could...
High Navy brass found out the truth of a remark that former Treasury Secretary Humphrey once made about Anderson: "Don't be misled about him just because he doesn't shout and pound the table the way I do. He can be firm as a rock." Shortly after he took over as boss of the Navy, Anderson overruled a promotion board's decision to pass over abrasive Captain Hyman Rickover, nuclear submarine pioneer, for the second and final time (two failures to win promotion to rear admiral meant automatic retirement). Determined to keep Rickover in the Navy...
...dubious bank clerk in The Lavender Hill Mob, declared: "I have an absolutely unalterable rule-no more roles about a dubious bank clerk." For his TV debut, he played just such a clerk, who dubiously plots to avenge 22 years of thankless labor by humiliating the bank's brass. His scheme: instead of swiping the bank's funds, he adds his own money to them, creates total bookkeeping chaos, and rapidly advances toward the presidency when he irons out the bugs. The show was directed too broadly, lacked the requisite British dryness, but in his subdued hilarity, Actor...
...does not pay]."* There is a movement in the crowd, especially among the young toughs in ducktail haircuts, dungarees and safari jackets. "Nike-lani izikhali zenu nani ku Nkulunkulu [Surrender your arms and yourself to God]," he continues, and a pile begins to grow at his feet-knives, blackjacks, brass knuckles (natives are forbidden to own firearms), and quantities of stolen goods. At one meeting police carted away three vanloads, and it is not unusual for Evangelist Bhengu to end up by walking down to the police station hand in hand with someone on the wanted list...