Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Promoter. A sprightly British-made spoof, with Alec Guinness playing a droll fellow who gets ahead in the world through sheer brass (TIME...
...Detroit almost every weekday by company plane. A man with a genuine liking for people, he can probably first-name more business friends than any other G.M. executive. He drinks and smokes sparingly, relaxes on rare fishing and hunting trips. But like most of G.M.'s top brass, he has only two real hobbies: making automobiles and talking about them...
...Rollo admissions book tells prospective Freshmen that one of the juiciest cultural plums awaiting them at Harvard is the Boston Symphony Orchestra concert series in Sanders Theatre. Yet, at these monthly concerts, the mellowed brass of the B.S.O. play mostly to the privileged brass of the University, not to students. Faculty members, instructors, and mysterious "friends of the University" monopolize the seats, and for an undergraduate to get a subscription, he needs more connections than a switchboard...
...with great interest that I read your Brass Tacks on "Nazi-Rebirth" in your Nov. 25th issue. Being an exchange student from Germany, I feel that I should give you some supplementary information so as to correct some of the mistakes in the article which, if not corrected, might leave the innocent reader with a rather distorted picture about present-day Germany...
...Promoter. A sprightly, British-made spoof, with Alec Guinness playing a droll fellow who gets ahead in the world through sheer brass (TIME...