Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brass Buttons to Burst...
...supposed to keep food prices down, but the law prevents him from tampering with most farm prices. With one ear he has to listen to the complaints of wage earners and housewives over rising prices; with the other, he tunes in on the desk thumps of Pentagon brass demanding special price exemptions for vast orders of critical materials, and the bleats of lobbyists, Congressmen and Senators, who are all for price control so long as it doesn't control the dried bean or the beefsteak or the cotton boll or the sphygmo-oscillometer...
...holder of both the Silver Star and Bronze Star Medal (for combat, that is), I regret to say that I honor my British Military Cross more than either of the U.S. decorations. At least our high brass is rationed in passing out Britain's combat awards...
Bravo for your Feb. 19 slap at the back-scratching brass of the armed forces whose foremost ambitions seem to center on the accumulation of a colorful array of "fruit salad" for their dress uniforms...
...curves to Actress Elizabeth Taylor. She got the Lampoon's "Roscoe" for "gallantly persisting in her career despite a total inability to act." In Boston last week, as Actress Taylor was boarding a plane for Hollywood, a delegation of Poonsters marched up with a small brass band. This time, they announced, the Lampoon was giving her the "Fabian Fall Award" as the actress who had "shown the most improvement as a result of a previous receipt of the 'Roscoe.' " Actress Taylor accepted a 25-lb. bronze bust. "This is very kind of you young men," she said...