Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After remolding Ike's brass hat into a golden halo, and rocking the country to sleep with "Everything's fine, Daddy's here," Hagerty simply must have overcome his dislike for "wading through manure...
...correspondent, Shelton was well-primed to provide background and play-by-play action that ended last week with the glow of a new star in the skies. While Shelton covered the Cape launching of Explorer, Washington Correspondents Ed Rees and Sherwin Badger sweated out the rocket shoot with Pentagon brass, and Atlanta Correspondent Lee Griggs went to the Army's Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala., to report Huntsville's big stake in the firing. For a narrative account of the history-making night, see the first four pages of NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...Braun joined a score of other military and civilian officials in the Army's telecommunications room, seated themselves at a table before two huge screens, one enlarging teletype messages from the Cape, the other carrying Pentagon messages back to the site. Elaborately, Von Braun lectured the attending brass on the rocket, described the painstaking timing and complex processes that must bring the big bird to life for its skyward trip. Then everybody settled down to wait. In his cottage at Augusta, Ga., President Eisenhower stayed near his telephone...
With some 80 of his World War II comrades in arms gathered at the Waldorf-Astoria, little-faded General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, now board chairman of Sperry Rand Corp., observed his 78th birthday. After the banquet, the assembled brass watched a nostalgic film of the Pacific war, heard an Army-supplied double quartet blend voices in Old Soldiers Never Die. "At my age," allowed the general, "every birthday is a challenge...
When Belgian Instrument Maker Adolphe Sax stuck a reed into a conical brass tube and patented the hybrid in 1846, he contributed a new instrument to the military band. In time his saxophone traveled across the Atlantic, became a mainstay of jazz. But the saxophone has always had its strict classical disciples. Last week one of the best and most influential of them, France's Marcel Mule, made his U.S. debut with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and convincingly demonstrated just how good the serious alto sax can sound...