Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Richard A. Mack, 45, to be a member of the Federal Communications Commission, succeeding hardbitten, brass-voiced Frieda Hennock, 50. Lawyer Hennock, a breezy, New Dealing Democrat (but no darling of the party's congressional rank and file), was the first woman to serve on the FCC, was often a center of controversy in her seven years in office. Floridian Mack, a Democrat of calmer persuasion, is former chairman of the Florida Railroad and Public Utilities Commission, a current vice president of the National Association of Railroad and Utilities Commissioners, and an experienced practitioner before...
...Brass, Beer...
...trouble seems to be that the TV brass just does not believe that housewives are interested in good cooking. Where TV cooking has survived, it generally aims at a mass audience that will buy sponsored gastronomic monstrosities (e.g., prewhipped cream...
...Anaconda's boss, Kelley kept the company in step with the rapidly expanding demands for copper of the electronic age. He bought mines in Chile, made Anaconda the world's biggest producer; by buying American Brass and setting...
...abstract painters at the Whitney showed even more brass than the sculptors. They generally displayed huge canvases, as the fashion is, but made some concession to hanging problems by favoring very tall pictures instead of very wide ones. Most followed the lead of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, the proconsuls of abstract expressionism, in energetically weaving fat tangles of paint over their yards and yards of canvas. Yet taken for what it was-decoration-the effect was often charming. Such expert practitioners as Theodores Stamos, James Brooks and the late Bradley Walker Tomlin manage to enfold the observer...