Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within hours, a U.S. helicopter landed at Kimpo, carrying high brass, and soon the big airlift transports were coming in (see below), adding more to the 4,000 tons of supplies shoved in by the Navy at Inchon every...
Most Filipinos applauded Quirino's candor. But the next day the President decided to postpone a much-needed housecleaning of the Philippine army top brass. The postponement so infuriated able Defense Secretary Ruperto Kangleon that he resigned. Quirino replaced him with 40-year-old Ramon Magsaysay, a staff officer with the U.S. cavalry during World...
From Look Magazine's Madison Avenue office to McCall's sanctum on Park Avenue is only a short, six-block walk. Lately, Look's top brass have been taking it. Three weeks ago, Look's redhaired, square-jawed Executive Editor Daniel Danforth Mich, 45, sauntered over to McCall's as editorial director. After him last week went Henry Ehrlich, 38, who quit as Look's managing editor, took the same title at McCall...
...takes mannitol hexanitrate tablets and chases them with Martinis. In Venice he lives intensely with the things he cherishes most: his girl, whom he loves truly and well and who loves him truly and well in return, his memories of two wars, good food & drink, resentment of the high brass. His intimations of death are accurate. The time span of Across the River is three days. At the end of it, Colonel Cantwell is dead...
...Melady gets the truth in the end, and Nathan gets two of the Aycocks before he is cornered and driven to suicide. But the characters are a mighty long time aflounderin' around in the Southern-cliche brakes before release comes. Streams of tobacco juice squirt in all directions, brass spittoons chime, calico dresses strain around the exciting hips of 15-year-old girls, and somewhere a mockingbird sings...