Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...muster a quip when the White House correspondents (who had flown down just ahead of the Independence) met him dressed up in Confederate caps and handlebar mustaches, making painful fun of his recent spate of grandmother stories. He rushed through the handshaking ceremonies with Navy and civilian brass, then disappeared gratefully behind the "Sorry, No Visitors" sign at the naval base. Right after lunch, he turned in for a nap, slept all afternoon...
...commander, smilingly looked on, men tackled each other in schoolboy fashion. Some, already embarked, dashed down for a second round of goodbyes with wives & children. Above the din of shouts and whistles, a group of French Canadians rousingly sang their regimental song, bag pipes skirled Tipperary, and a brass band blared Mad'moiselle from Armenti...
...Bazy's office door reads "Colonel Robert R. McCormick" (staff members slyly salute as they pass), but the room behind it is seldom used. The colonel has been in Washington less than half a dozen times since he took command. Officially, the paper's top editorial brass hat is Frank Waldrop, longtime executive editor. Waldrop insists that Tribunizing the T-H is his own idea and that he sold McCormick on it. But Washington newsmen believe that Bertie's mouthpiece in the capital is really Walter Trohan, chief of the Tribune's Washington bureau. They...
...York's High School of Music and Arts, is about four minutes too long. The middle section lags considerably, and perhaps Mr. Copland will someday see fit to tighten up this otherwise intriguing composition. The orchestra, for the most part, did full justice to the music. Only the brass section, no longer bolstered by Conservatory students, seemed rather weak; it frequently played too loud, and was not always...
...Army Game. At Scott Air Force Base, Ill., the brass solved the parking problem by banning automobiles of privates from the post...