Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minutes. Then the President, Anderson and his wife Bonnie, and a small group of Navy and Atomic Energy Commission brasshats formed up before 75 newsmen in the White House conference room. (Not invited and thus snubbed: A-Sub Pioneer Rickover, whose prickly personality is still anathema to some Navy brass.) There the President pinned the Legion of Merit on Commander Anderson, awarded the first Presidential Unit Citation ever given in peacetime to SSN 571-U.S.S. Nautilus...
...Living Hell." Heid was only one of several committee witnesses whose evident terror proved the Teamsters' power to punish and intimidate. Another Minneapolis ex-Teamster, Arthur Morgan, 43, wept as he told that threats and harassment made his life "a living hell" since he testified against Teamster brass before the McClellan committee a year ago. "Every night practically." testified Morgan, "the telephone would ring all night long, and my wife would get calls that asked if the children were home from school, and she would say that they are, and they would tell her, 'Maybe you are lucky...
...South Pacific's one-a-day, island-hopping vaudeville circuit, Paar became the open enemy of all brass. Once, in New Caledonia, a show was delayed and 5,000 men were kept waiting by a Navy commodore, who finally arrived with a nurse on his arm. "We were going to have six lovely girls do the dance of the virgins," announced Paar. "But they broke their contracts by being with the commodore." The commodore threatened a courtmartial. "The Army got me out of it," claims Paar, "by promising to send me to Okinawa...
...photographer takes his picture with Rexall's top brass, and the company often persuades the druggist's home-town paper to run it. Dart also gives the druggist an incentive to push Rexall products more vigorously than competing brands by selling at such low wholesale prices that the druggist can often get a bigger markup on Rexall products than others...
...contributors to Variety's review, only the network brass sounds satisfied. "I have read about how the next season's television schedules will be 'stale and pedestrian,' " says NBC President Robert Kintner. "If by these words the critics mean that programs that the public likes will return to television, then the schedules will be stale and pedestrian...