Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beaming, bald Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan rode back to Washington from the tall corn country last week, basking in pleasant visions of the future. For two days an all-star cast of Democratic brass had hobnobbed in Des Moines with 3,000 farmers, labor leaders and party bosses from 16 Midwestern states, whooping up the Brannan farm plan, which, to hear them tell it, would give the farmer a high income, the consumer low food prices, and the taxpayer practically no pain at all (TIME, April 18). There was almost no chance of its passing Congress this session...
Guard Fight. As the principal Assistant Secretary of the Army, Gray has won a Pentagon reputation as a man who knows how the Army works, and gets along with the big brass without being overwhelmed by them. Gray's only brush with trouble in the feud-ridden Pentagon came when a special committee he headed, the so-called Gray Board, recommended that the National Guard be taken out of state hands-and state politics-and put under federal control. The politically powerful National Guard, which spiked the project, may be called on to fight it again: another board...
Last week in Manhattan's big new Bop City (TIME, April 25), the fans were giving Mr. B. a reverent greeting in keeping with his shy, devotional manner. The lights went down; a solemn hush spread over the joint. With Charlie Barnet's big brass backing him, Eckstine gave them Somehow, in big, rich tones (he sings open-throated, instead of whispering into a microphone). His version of Ellington's Caravan had the fans hitting the trail (along with more than 1,000,000 record buyers). In his own rubbery phrasing, he stretched Ol' Man River...
...would be a notably narrow skyscraper (72 ft. wide, 544 ft. high). "Greater total width would have been undesirable," the FORUM explained, because so many of the prospective tenants were high brass who would require honorific outside offices. There was a similar diplomatic reason for the Secretariat's 4,000 separate air-conditioning units. "Such a luxurious standard," said the FORUM, "is enforced on U.N. by the contiguity of Icelanders and Abyssinians . . . each with his own idea of thermal comfort...
...undistinguished steel and brass implement, hammer-headed and weighing 16 oz. It has been causing Sam some embarrassment, because the name of the manufacturer stamped on it is not that of the Wilson Sporting Goods Co., for which Sam works. But to Sam, that putter is the difference. He borrowed it from a Chicago pro, Stan Curtis, in Tucson last February, and it cured his tendency to tighten up on the greens...