Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chorus of anguish rose. Then guests began bidding frantically for pieces of their favorite hotel. A shrewd New York merchant snapped up brass doorknobs and key plates for resale as souvenirs. Last week, when the Ritz finally closed its doors, the hotel owners decided to auction off the furniture, rugs, mirrors, fireplaces and dishes, glassware and silver with the Ritz crest. Flashiest buyer: wealthy Texas Publisher Amon Carter, who bought the famed men's bar as a present for his son, and two elevator cages to be used as powder rooms in his Fort Worth home...
...Korea saw no hope of freedom for themselves. But their children, they felt, might be more fortunate. They began to observe May 5 as Children's Day. Last week battered Seoul celebrated Children's Day with a parade by the police, who marched 600 strong behind a brass band and a huge placard: "Children Are the Nation's Flower...
...brass band avoided the mortar-crumpled south gate and the shattered railway station where, on Children's Day as on all other days, the abandoned, the homeless, the orphans prowled restlessly, begging, stealing, conniving to stay alive. They screamed "chop-chop" (food) at G.I.s, hovered hungrily around the soldiers who uncomfortably ate their rations...
...Panchen Lama, who came to Peking in person from Tsinghai Province, was met enthusiastically at the station by 90 high Red officials, including Premier Chou, three Vice Presidents, 500 civil bigwigs, Peking's Tibetan colony, and a brass band. That night, after a banquet, Chou declared benignly that Mao Tse-tung had "long ago decided to liberate Tibet and help the Tibetan people return to the big family of China." Replied the 14-year-old Panchen Lama: "We firmly support the policy of Chairman...
...most of its 30 minutes, Time for Defense (Tues. 10 p.m., ABC) moves in a familiar groove: detailed battle reports by Department of Defense officials, interviews with top brass, music by the U.S. Air Force band. But for several tense minutes each show, listeners are carried from their armchairs across 6,000 miles of the Pacific. Last week they were pressed hard against a low stone wall rimming a Korean rice field and hearing the clatter of U.S. .50-cal. machine guns as they sprayed an enemy-infested hillside...