Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cadillac limousine, which is 19 ft. long v. 14.8 ft. of a Rambler American, costs $822 a year to maintain, not counting a chauffeur's annual salary of up to $4,865. Moreover, the city runs about 65 motor mastodons (Cadillacs, Lincolns, Chryslers, Packards) for conveying top brass, as well as 149 medium ones (Buicks, Mercuries, Dodges, Pontiacs, De Sotos) for lesser lights...
...trade fair, it raised no objections but pooh-poohed the notion that the Russians would ever permit such a fair. Neuburger got Manhattan Lawyer Marshall MacDuffie (who, as chief of the UNRRA mission to the Ukraine after World War II, had met Khrushchev) to talk to top Russian brass, himself talked long and hard with Russian trade officials. He got a written agreement to stage the fair last summer, canceled it at U.S. Government request after the Hungarian revolution, signed a new contract last July to exhibit this summer...
...starred Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes. This time Rock Hudson and Jennifer Jones are the lovers-in CinemaScope and De Luxe color-and the whole production is painfully overblown. What Hemingway wrote as an interlude of amorous flutes and distant drums, Producer David 0. Selznick has scored for brass. But what is really wrong with the picture is the Hemingway story, and what is really fascinating in the picture is the problem of how a story that seemed so right in one generation can seem so wrong in the next...
Beneath a striped canopy, Balanchine marshaled 41 dancers wearing spangled tutus and brass-buttoned coats loaded with a fruit salad of stars, medals and epaulets (famed Costumer Karinska, who traditionally arrives, cavalrylike, just as Balanchine is about to burn, outdid herself by producing the outfits several hours before curtain time). All the dazzle did not glare from the costumes: Ballerina Diana Adams, in a blue, yellow and red drum majorette's rig, led a regiment of girls in high, prancing kicks to the tune of Rifle Regiment; Ringmaster Balanchine had 13 men of the ballet corps performing difficult, double...
...world with mass and regular exploitation of jets." To fly into the jet age ahead of the West, Aeroflot adapted Designer Andrei Tupolev's twin-jet Badger medium-range bombers to regular commercial service. The TU-104 looks like a Victorian Pullman car with ornate chandeliers, overstuffed seats, brass serving trays and old-time chain-flush toilets. But overnight it has changed Aeroflot from a lowly regarded, primarily domestic line into a major international threat. Aeroflot has about 50 TU-104s, flies them regularly to East Berlin, Prague, Sofia and distant cities within the U.S.S.R., cuts the eight...