Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...River Street (United Artists) retells the surefire old story of the worm who turns. Cabdriver John Payne is an ex-pug who gets his first brass-knuckle treatment from fate when an eye injury ends his boxing career just as he is on the brink of winning the world's heavyweight championship. In quick succession, he is deceived by his wife, played for a sucker by an aspiring actress (Evelyn Keyes), unjustly accused of assault & battery, framed for murder, hammered to a pulp by one gangster, pistol-whipped by another, and shot by a third. Before...
...Navy ivory tower now grown so tall that the big brass not only can't see the trees but are fast losing sight of the forest itself? Of course it is the height of giddy conceit to think that a seagull can be made the bull to a school of whales. The appointment of a naval aviator, Rear Admiral Frank Akers, as ACNO for undersea warfare [TIME, Aug. 24], seems to be forcing just such an arrangement. In their effort to keep apace with the Air Force in projecting themselves into the pushbutton future, the Navy has apparently relegated...
...last week came note No. 12-the shortest and the best so far. It was a crisp, polite invitation to the Soviet Foreign Minister to meet with his Big Three opposite numbers to seek "a solution of the German and Austrian problems," and it got right down to the brass tacks of time (Oct. 15) and place (Lugano, Switzerland). The note did not try to meet attacks made in previous Soviet notes, and it made no attack on Soviet acts or motives...
Like a man walking into a memorial service to report that nobody had died, Bridgeport Brass Chairman Herman Steinkraus said last week: "Wall Street's recession talk wouldn't last very long if Wall Streeters got into and around the country and saw how sound and busy it was." The soundness and busyness was evident in many quarters last week. Some signs...
...from its opening in 1883 until the outbreak of World War I, Host Ritter toured the capitals of Europe recruiting royal guests (e.g., Kaiser Wilhelm II, Britain's Edward VII, Russia's Czar Alexander III). The 150-room Park Hotel became a billet for victorious U.S. Army brass (including Generals Dwight Eisenhower and Lucius Clay) after World War II, last year returned to Ritter's control, became a resort for West Germany's newest royalty: Ruhr industrialists and movie stars...