Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...predicted its death with monotonous regularity, but none of the swingsters had paid attention before. Now the No. 1 exponent of pseudo-Dixieland, Bob Crosby (brother of Bing) was packing them in at a Broadway theater with a toned-down band that went easier on the drums and the brass. Crosby late of the U.S. Marines, learned his lesson when leading a service band on Bougainville. He expected the Marines to demand music with hair on its chest. Says he: "They wanted me to sing White Christmas...
...great treasure hunt of history, but it has had its moments. In 1827, Joseph Smith told of finding near Palmyra, N.Y., the cache of inscribed golden tablets* later translated into the Book of Mormon. Some years later another Mormon named James Jesse Strang found another cache of engraved tablets (brass this time) in Walworth County, Wis. In 1869 diggers near Cardiff, N.Y. unearthed what was thought to be petrified proof positive of a vanished race of American supermen-until it developed that the 2,966-lb. "giant" had been carved (out of Iowa gypsum) by a joker in Chicago...
...Brass Ring. In Mount Vernon, Ill., a merry-go-round gathered speed, suddenly went wild, threw off three children, injured two workers, for six minutes whirled a terrified mother and child at 40 m.p.h...
...Tanguay, once famed as vaudeville's brass-lunged I Don't Care girl, achieved 68 in her Hollywood bungalow, but she was "hanging on by a thread," said she-"I'm just waiting for it to come any time now." Long crippled, she had been living alone with three cats; now she has a day & night nurse. But she is still holding out for a $150,000 offer for her life story. That was Sarah Bernhardt's price, said she, and "in a way, I was as famous...
...American World Airways got the biggest brass of all: Admiral of the Fleet William F. Halsey, who became Pan Am's vice president in charge of trans-Pacific service. To "Bull" Halsey, recently high-jinksing in South America, the Pacific is as familiar as the palm of his hand. He knows its logistics, its geopolitics, the length & breadth of its "unsinkable aircraft carriers." But mostly Pan Am will count on the publicity value of his name...