Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...U.S.S.R. never thinks it worthwhile to name the ailments that took them off. For most, death seems to come in what the U.S. armed forces regard as hearty middle age. Since the beginning of the year, the Russian press has reported these deaths among the high brass...
...films like a disc jockey from the concert stage-an unorthodox practice that pains some traditionalists even more than his habit of acknowledging applause with the overhead handclasp of a prizefighter. Yet no one quite foresaw what a hit the movie would be. Some of MGM's top brass took a gloomy view on the theory that the U.S. public would not buy anything heavier than Victor Herbert in so large a dose. But after the first preview, Studio Boss Dore Schary sent Lanza hampers of fruit, flowers and champagne...
Eight times Seattle pulled out all the stops to welcome home a boatload of "rotating" G.I.s returning from Korea. The standard welcome program: brass bands, free theater tickets, ice cream, candy, a performance on the wharf by bathing beauties, swivel-hipped hula girls, and prancing cancan dancers. The boys thought it was great stuff, but some of Seattle's moms didn't. They wrote letters to the papers, buttonholed and berated officials to complain about the show the girls put on at dockside...
...covering the President's press conferences-along with everything else that the capital brass says, thinks, plans or does-has become one of the most important journalistic assignments in history. But among the 1,500 Washington correspondents who file 700,000 words of copy a day there is no general agreement on how well the job is being done...
...York Times bureau, the capital's biggest newspaper bureau (23 staffers). Krock almost never attends press conferences, prefers to depend instead on his personal contacts and his staffers' legs. As Washington's No. 1 correspondent, Krock's advice is often sought by Washington brass-from the President down. He has won two Pulitzer Prizes and two exclusive presidential interviews (Franklin Roosevelt in 1937, Harry Truman in 1950). Like all Timesmen, Krock has an advantage over most of his competitors, in that the Times is the most-favored paper for Government handouts, leaks and policy "trial balloons...