Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vegas, Nev. had not seen so many soldiers since World War II. Every evening, swarms of shouting, jostling officers and G.I.s from every branch of the service -paratroopers, artillerymen, medics, engineers-roamed the streets and filled the gambling palaces. The hotels were jammed with high brass, and the big silvery transports sweeping down on McCarran Field kept adding to the flood. Then the planes stopped coming in, the khaki-clad Army abruptly vanished. Out on the desert, 65 miles away, 5.000 hand-picked troops were getting their final briefing before Exercise Desert Rock-the G.I.'s introduction to atomic...
...saying that "only student performers have faults in the CRIMSON." Both statements are wrong. If Murray will re-read just the reviews that have appeared this fall, he will find (1) that every one devotes space to criticizing the performance; (2) that the professional B.S.O. had "too loud" brass, "lax interpretation," "a shaky start," etc; (3) that the student Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra was "top-notch ... of professional calibre" and gave an "electrifying performance"; and (4) that, in one case, a professional performance was judged far inferior to student performance of the same work...
...hustling bundle of energy who sometimes memorizes bits of the dictionary while running around the roof of his office building to keep in condition, Louis Marx carries a pocketful of toys to give friends. He hobnobs with Army brass (at war's end he toured the German toy industry at the request of General Eisenhower), gets a kick out of sending his latest gadgets to such bigwigs as George Marshall, a longtime friend. Says Retailer Bernard Gimbel of Marx: "He has a touch of genius...
Tony Trabert, 21, called up for training in the Navy after winning the National Intercollegiate and Clay Court tennis championships last summer, got news that he could postpone his naval career for awhile. After he had spent four weeks in Bainbridge, Md. boot camp, sports-conscious brass approved a go-day leave for him to represent the U.S. in the Davis Cup matches in Australia in December...
...lack of range and speed weighed heavily against its advantages. The Korean war turned Cinderella into a fairy princess. The helicopter's ability to take off from anywhere and to land almost anywhere made it just the thing for evacuating the wounded, supplying isolated positions, carting specialists and brass around. Most recent and spectacular helicopter mission: landing a full battalion of marines with their weapons on a mountainous front-line sector (TIME...