Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks ago in the Hilton, at almost any hour of day or night, one might have run into a brass band, a fire siren or a bush-league opera soprano straining for high C, but this time the hoopla was relatively restrained...
...Harmony. Despite the lack of SHAPE'S shiniest brass, the ceremony was a tribute to the foresight of SHAPE'S first commander. The school got its start under General Eisenhower, who hoped it would help SHAPE'S multi-nation families to live and work together in harmony. Last January, when the first term began in a reconverted farmhouse, there were 28 boys & girls on the rolls. Now there are 148 students-Norwegian, Danish, Italian, Canadian, Dutch, French, British and American-ranging from four-year-olds to teenagers. When the school opens next fall, Headmaster Rene Tallard...
Postal Regulations. In Ottawa, Canadian army brass issued an order prohibiting soldiers overseas from mailing to friends at home: "motor vehicles, airplanes, motorcycles, surgical and dental instruments and machine tools...
Guard the Clothes. Boyd and Leeming were soon joined by several tons of British brass (including Lieut. General Philip Neame and Major General Adrian Carton de Wiart). As the war went on, discipline was formalized-by Italian standards. For example, since none of the Italian garrison knew how to assemble a new machine gun, the British prisoners were asked to assist; the British obliged, thoughtfully omitting to install several vital parts. When the captives were taken on a picnic, the Italian officers and guards joined them for a swim, leaving a British general on shore to guard the clothes...
...report the convention, more than 5,000 reporters, technicians and brass from newspapers, magazines, radio and TV will move in on Chicago by week's end. It will be by far the biggest press corps ever to cover a convention. Many will have to work in shifts, since Convention Hall has only 860 press seats for dailies. One big change caused by TV: special press-conference rooms have been set up so politicos will have to come to the press, instead of summoning reporters to hotel suites, where TV coverage would be difficult...