Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Administration's 80-day Taft-Hartley injunction (TIME, Dec. 3). It was "formally" brought to an end a week before the longshoremen went back to work, by agreement on a contract between the I.L.A. brass and the New York Shipping Association, representing its own 170 members and sister associations up and down the coast. But portly Captain William V. Bradley, I.L.A. President, fell on his face when it came time to deliver...
Added to the three carryovers are three new musicals that rely heavily on lively, lavish productions and name stars: Happy Hunting offers the unmuted brass of Ethel Merman, Bells Are Ringing the smart dumb-blonde antics of Comedienne Judy Holliday, and Li'l Abner the howling hillbillies of Dogpatch plus a display of a lot of a few girls. "There has been a return to the old form of musicals," says Oscar Hammerstein II, looking back over the season to date, "shows with irresponsible, gay books that are fast and lively...
...Hampton's recent tours of Israel ("I visited King David's tomb, and a chant just came to me"), the music tells in a plaintive harp opening of the Old Testament tribulations of the Jews, "blows down the Wailing Wall" in a mighty, jumping blast of brass, moves through a lively vibraphone dance to a deafening, full-orchestra crescendo of triumph...
...taste for hefty engines. At Maserati he is forever trying to balance his desire for a lot of cylinders with the racer's need for resistance to wear and tear. It took Giulio more than two years of arguing, pleading, cajoling, storming to convince Maserati's high brass that a twelve-cylinder engine was the logical evolution from their successful six-cylinder, 2.5-liter racer...
When the moviemakers are through polishing up the brass, they tell the story of Bernie Goldsmith (Ernest Borgnine)-which is substantially that of Abraham Chasanow. After 22 years of governmental service. Goldsmith is abruptly suspended as a security risk. When the whispering campaign gets going, he is shunned by his neighbors as a Communist, but his friends rally round and. as a studio release somewhat mysteriously explains, "risk public approbation to defend his name." When his lawyer (Ray Milland) wins a hearing several months later, Goldsmith wins a recommendation for reinstatement. Ruling overruled...