Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...landed at Kansas City, Kans., and spent a quiet, secluded night on the 14th floor of the new Town House, waking up at 4 a.m. and worrying about his first cam paign speech. At 7:30 a.m. Ike, Mamie, newsmen and the campaign brass climbed aboard a Santa Fe streamliner bound for the little (pop. 6,000) town of Abilene, where the U.S. would watch Ike make his political debut...
...went down one floor to the apartment of Hotel Manager Mike Biggs and his wife Eulalia. They hurried through fruit salad, stewed chicken, peas, mashed potatoes and a dish of pineapple sherbert. Then Ike and Mamie climbed out on the top of the hotel marquee to join the political brass in a review of the Ike homecoming parade...
...officers put Assemblyman Suh Min Ho on trial, accused him of murdering a South Korean army captain. Suh's lawyer told the court-martial that his client had shot in self-defense and had been acquitted by the Assembly. Suh is not very popular with South Korean army brass since he brought to light a half-million-dollar embezzlement scandal in Rhee's army...
Author Purdy is a romantic, but all over the U.S. there is still a scattering of men whose hearts leap up when they be hold a pre-World War I car, its brass shined to a dazzle, its head lamps staring proudly ahead, its exhaust pipes exposed for all admiring eyes to see. There are even some, as delicately geared as Author Purdy, who can close their eyes and "imagine a string-straight, poplar-lined Route Nationale in France on a summer's day. That growing dot in the middle dis tance is a sky-blue Bugatti coupe, rasping...
...Submarine, the first U.S. underwater fighter of World War II to write fully about a kind of war whose special triumphs and stresses were shared by no other service. Other books about the subs have been written (TIME, March 5, 1951), but they were the work of desk brass. Author Beach saw all his war through periscopes, and heard it-with & without audiophones-crashing vengefuily around him. It was a war of sights & sounds, and Navyman Beach knows how to share them with his readers...