Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Royal Theater in Copenhagen had dwindled to an offstage piano. But the world's second oldest ballet (after France's L'Opéra) and Western Europe's second best (after Britain's Sadler's Wells) had no need of sounding brass or tinkling cymbal. Dancing a series of divertissements and set pieces from their repertory, they delighted packed houses of up-from-the-city balletomanes and matinee contingents from nearby girls' camps with the warm, old-fashioned charm of their style...
...been told that six or eight people would be there for a small, informal dinner. But when he walked through the big paneled door, he stared at a roomful of 125 Scripps-Howard editors, business managers, bureau managers, other brass from the Scripps papers, the United Press, NEA Service. Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance-brought in from all over the country. Most of them had stayed out of the hotel lobby, to keep Roy from spotting them and guessing the secret...
Uniform of the day was the blue, brass-buttoned blazer and snappy nautical cap of the well-heeled yachtsman; the easy banter was the well-oiled chatter of pleasure-boat skippers out for a good time. But back of the byplay, the briefing session in the Travers Island boathouse of the New York Athletic Club one evening last week was as studied and serious as a premission meeting of wartime PT-boat skippers...
Intriguing Musk. Stirring the nightly quota of martinis, Tom tells Betsy that he is going to try for a public-relations job with United Broadcasting Corp. As he hurdles tricky interviews in the company's Rockefeller Center headquarters, Tom feels that even the brass-colored elevators carry the intriguing musk of big money. The scent is headiest around U.B.C.'s self-effacing but all-powerful $200,000-a-year president, Ralph Hopkins. It is to Hopkins that Tom is assigned as unofficial braintruster, ghostwriter and aide...
...army brass, unconsulted about the appointment, refused to have anything to do with it. Utoyo might not be a leftist, these colonels said, but he would certainly be putty in the Defense Minister's burly hands. They announced that they would not attend Utoyo's swearing-in ceremony...