Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pages) is for toys. Among the new ones: a "Tintair Glamor Girl Doll," whose blonde hair can be dyed two different colors and washed out again ($11.45); a 145-piece army training center, complete with 100 plastic soldiers and a swivel chair in the headquarters building for the top brass...
Even though a lifelong Republican with a yearning for a change in the present Federal Administration, I am disturbed over plans being laid by certain Republicans of brass-hat level to pressure General Eisenhower into giving up his present European responsibilities and accepting the Republican presidential nomination. The planners, in my opinion, could do no greater disservice to the country...
Librettist Alex had a good story and told it well. And Composer David had the taste not to try to drown out the drama onstage with too much brass from the pit. His score, dramatic and often lyrical, was not always distinguished. But together, action and music moved on to the climax with the inevitability of a conveyor belt...
Several million dollars worth of beauty, brains, and brass will roll into the Square Friday morning as the Hollywood good-will caravan visits Cambridge, 15 limousines strong...
Like other company brass, Bennett was kept dependent on Ford, who never paid him much. Says Bennett: "I got peanuts for a salary for 28 of the 30 years." Ford often rewarded Bennett and others with unexpected gifts (new homes, new cars, refrigerators), but often took the gifts away. "Never," he explained to Bennett, "give anything without strings attached to it." But Ford sought his executives within the plant: when an engineer told him he needed a metallurgist, Ford pointed to a man sweeping the floor and said: "Make one out of that fellow." (The sweeper became a good metallurgist...