Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finally erupted. A federal grand jury indicted A. E. Funk Jr., 27-year-old son of Kentucky's attorney general, and with him his 34-year-old law partner. The partner was none other than brash, hulking Edward F. Prichard Jr., the onetime New Deal wonder boy whose brass, brains & belly (he weighed 300 lbs.) made him a campus phenomenon at both Princeton and Harvard Law School, who hustled off to Washington at the age of 24 to help Franklin Roosevelt run the country. Four years ago Prichard had come back to Kentucky in search of a political career...
Ending with Sousa's "The Thunderer," the Band put life into a tune that is constantly mauled by grade school groups. Fine tempo and a well-controlled brass section brought out the better parts of Sousa...
...brass of the HAA held its second annual spring luncheon for the nutritive and intellectual development of the working press yesterday in the muggy grandeur of the Harvard Club of Boston. Prominently featured were Martinis, a mixed grille; green garden peas, and a strawberry sundae, but the piece de resistance was a frank on-the-record discussion of Harvard spring football by head coach Art Valpey...
According to the "Army and Navy Journal," the Air Force is planning to go even farther. The Air Force's plan, still being studied by Pentagon brass, calls for complete elimination of segregation. All Negro units, including the 332nd Fighter Wing, are to be deactivated, and their rated personnel assigned to other Air Force units all over the world. The non-rated but promising men would be sent to service schools for more training, and the "men of no promise" separated from the Air Force...
...many a jungle-slogging G.I., Bridgeport Brass Co.'s DDT bug bomb was almost as good a friend as his rifle. When the war ended, the company dressed up its Aer-a-sol (DDT expelled by Freon gas) dispenser in civilian clothes, and struck a retail bonanza. Last week Bridgeport Brass thought it saw more pay dirt; it planned to apply the Aer-a-sol principle to dozens of other products...