Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After three churchly hours in Covent Garden last week, most of the audience agreed that summarize it did-even if it added little that was new. In Progress they heard the best and worst of Vaughan Williams, from reedy English pastoral melodies to great splatterings of brass. They gave the composer an ovation, but they also had to agree with one elderly dowager that Progress was "rather monotonous for opera, wasn...
...While brass bands welcome MacArthur all over the country, not a single faculty member here has yet been found to champion the general's views...
...bright blue sky-resounded to a flowing torrent of sound. At the tip of Manhattan it increased. Ships and tugs lent their whistles to the din. Then, lower Broadway -the financial district's Canyon of Heroes -began to resound to the clop of police horses, the crash of brass bands, as paraders moved out to lead MacArthur a mile; to City Hall. History's greatest fall of paper, ticker tape and torn telephone books (2,850 tons) cascaded down, filling the street ankle-deep. It fell so thickly for a time that it completely blurred thet lenses...
Like everybody else, Harry Truman could hear the cheers and brass bands, but unlike everybody else, never once bothered to stick his head out the window...
...National Production Authority last week put pencils on its defense priority list. Under the new Controlled Materials Plan (TIME, April 23), pencil manufacturers will now get enough copper to make the brass they need to fasten erasers to pencil tops. Exulted Eagle Pencil Co.'s Sales Manager David E. Price: "It's taken the years since the war to convince the Government that nothing starts without pencils...