Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week Farmer Booth and his family, and 21 other Indiana farmers and wives on the Hoosier Hawaiian Air-a-Van boarded a plane at the Indianapolis airport. "They're all just good, average farmers," explained a Farm Bureau man. "None of them is the top brass kind of farmer. They're all pretty much alike, these Indiana farmers...
Some of Levine's latest paintings gave indication that he was losing a little of his early bile. Cartoons in oil like Reception in Miami and Welcome Home, a prod at Army brass, came a little less frequently. "I may have been angry or bitter but I don't stay that way," explained Levine...
...dawned wet, cold and foggy last week. Toward noon, Chicago Tribune staffers and WGN engineers gathered expectantly in Room 833 of the Tribune Tower. Outside the window they could see a shiny brass whistle, four feet high, ten inches in diameter, which until recently had graced the West Coast steamship Yale. Now Yaleman Bertie McCormick ('03) had acquired it for a new and loftier mission: to warn Chicagoland of an atomic-bomb raid. Before leaving for an Arizona vacation, the colonel had left orders for a test toot...
Last week Sammy was taking on all comers. In the next six weeks, as Sammy made a coast-to-coast tour of 30-odd U.S. and Canadian cities, anyone with $2 and sufficient brass could have a go at him. In a really busy session, Sammy estimates that he trots 15 to 20 miles to make an average of 20 to 60 moves on each board. He likes to knock off 40 at a time, although recently at Germantown, Pa. he faced 75 in one evening...
...Buzzard. It was a desk job and Douglas stood it as long as he could. But he kept pestering the brass for a chance to get into the fighting. His chance came when the ist Division charged ashore at Peleliu. On the second savage day, the adjutant of the 5th Marines was wounded; back to the ships went the message: "If that old white-haired buzzard wants to get in some fighting, let him come ashore." Douglas stayed with the 5th through some of the bloodiest days of the Pacific campaign, won a Bronze Star for carrying ammunition...