Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...under Harry Truman's nose. That morning, Acheson, Louis Johnson and an assortment of advisers and high brass gathered in the President's office with their mixed emotions. Mr. Truman reacted with growing choler. The meeting grimly discussed the matter, and the President and Secretary Acheson discussed it again in the afternoon...
...International News Service Correspondent, and Randolph Churchill, 39, of the London Daily Telegraph. After several days at "Sioggerville" (correspondents' slang for a dangerous sector), Emery and Churchill had gone to a quiet sector for a rest. There, a G.I. braced them: "You fellows always talk to the brass and never give us a break. Why don't you come on patrol with us tonight and tell the people back home how tough it is ... There won't be any danger. We know this area...
...Elliot Jacoby and Richard duPage, turn out their bridge music and titles. Explains Composer Jacoby: "Ye Old English Countryside but Something Is Amiss breaks down into an opening of nostalgic muted strings; then the French horn dirties it up at the end." "Hate," says he, "is almost always bitter brass and off-key woodwinds." Love is usually-a muted string solo, but, "if very throbbing," the sweetly sighing string section is divided, "like Kostelanetz...
...likes to sport a cane and carnation, it was the first letup in 50 years of hustling for Hearst as reporter and editor. Cobbie himself announced the change at a San Francisco banquet for 400, including Governor Earl Warren, Louis B. Mayer, Sam Goldwyn and assorted top Hearst brass, and was given a memento of his San Francisco days. The gift: a cable...
...year-old Treasurer Hugh Ferry agreed to take the job temporarily. Ferry, who had joined Packard in 1910 when some drivers still carried ammonia to squirt at dogs snapping at their tires, was no production man. But he knew Packard inside out, and got the top brass working more smoothly. Dealers have been jacked up, the sales organization expanded and the new model hustled along...