Word: brassed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: I do not know whether the omission was intentional or accidental, but I do know that the no doubt world-renowned tailgate artist (trombone player to you), George Brunies, was not mentioned or pictured in your article about the Brass Rail Boys (TIME, July...
...Without brass, Providence, R.I.'s costume-jewelry manufacturers were on the verge of closing down...
That life, commingled with a sculptor's (Reginald Gardiner) who models "the essential Caroline" in brass (see cut), turns out to be less exciting than it promises to be. For Director Lewis Milestone has forsaken action for a series of static scenes bowed down under too much talk. The talk is sometimes funny, seldom convincing. But oldtime Actor Colman, now a greying 50, turns in a neat performance in his offhand, sotto voce manner, and England's Anna Lee (in her first big-time U.S. cinema role) is a first-rate Caroline...
...Brass Rail boys have always played hot, intricate, free-ranging music, without ever making much money from it. Benny Goodman dressed Chicago jazz up, quieted it down and turned it to profit. Returning to Chicago this week to play at the Hotel Sherman and broadcast a big commercial series (for Holland Furnace Co.), Benny Goodman could still call himself "King of Swing," although he would not want to. For one thing, he is now a concert artist, not the least of whose achievements is to convince the young that there must be something good about Mozart...
...Extended its industry-wide control over copper to include copper base alloys, brass and bronze...