Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...artists are trained, and a musician." He saw them-as well as ballets, church services and plays (including a "stunning" Macbeth). He foraged busily from Moscow's P.S. 151 to a children's nursery where they had never heard of diapers. He reached some of the top brass on the merry-go-round of diplomatic receptions, quizzed dozens of functionaries who are not normally tapped by Western newsmen, and with a rarely granted 20-day visa extension went by excursion steamer and plane to the antique fastnesses of Russian Asia...
When well-fed Crooner Elvis Presley ambled into Fort Chaffee, Ark. for three days of induction processing, some 50 newsmen (plus Elvis' manager) were on hand to record every detail. Abetted by space-conscious Army brass, reporters gathered brief quotes at every step from reveille to taps (sample: "I had a good night's sleep, and I decided to get up"), gleefully watched the Presley poll being pared by a civilian barber, snapped for posterity US 53310761-whose normal garb runs to cat boots, loud sports jackets and open-necked shirts-in a singularly unpressed set of fatigues...
...Manhattan to pick up pointers from live shows. Today even the janitors on his payroll of 2,500 still call him by his first name, but Desi is equally authoritative behind the cameras directing a pilot film or rattling off shrewd decisions in long-distance calls with network brass, sponsors and ad agencies...
...delighted by the visit. An hour earlier, workmen, clearing a site for a new building, had uncovered a few delicately wrought bronze relics, and the Oni was eager to show them off. After one look at the find-two bronze statues, two egg-shaped staff finials, two solid brass staffs, and a decorated drinking vessel-Fagg rushed excitedly to the site, ordered it sealed...
...undercutting all free-world competition. No one was more surprised than the three dominant U.S. producers-Alcoa, Kaiser and Reynolds-who expected to maintain the price of primary aluminum at 26? per Ib., perhaps even raise it because of an impending wage hike. Yet within 24 hours, the top brass of each company hastily gathered, and one by one cut their price to 24? per Ib., announcing that "we will meet the competition...