Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Yalta again remind me of Christ's prophetic pronouncement: ". . . Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy" . . . And F.D.R.'s pious preachment: "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity (love), I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal...
...drop her from his CBS-TV Morning Show. In her place he hired blonde Edith Adams, probably no better at singing than Betty. Why did he do it? Explained Paar: "We're on the air 15 hours a week, mostly without script, so everyone has to double in brass. Edith Adams can do any dialect, sing in Italian, German and French, and mimic personalities from Louis Armstrong to Marilyn Monroe. What's more, she's full of ideas, and ideas are what we live...
...What discipline!" says Charles-Hubert (papa) when he sees a Wehrmacht brass band. "After all, they're human beings too," says Julie (mama). Julie, who met Charles-Hubert at a bargain counter where "their hands clasped over a pair of socks at a reduced price," is a kind of Clausewitz of the cash register. Her axiom: wars are long and rations get short. The Poissonards stock the Bon Beurre fore and aft. Tins of ham as big as ox livers prop up the conjugal bed. Sausages hang thick as stalactites from the ceiling. On the floors stand wheels...
Prizefighters who retire before their brains get scrambled almost always wind up with another occupational characteristic : total recall. They can remember every minute of every fight-the amateur bouts when the gold medal or the brass watch was hocked for the price of a hot meal, the tank-town prelims, the main events when they got their turns on the big time. Ex-Middleweight Champion Rocky Graziano does even better. In his autobiography, Somebody Up There Likes Me (Simon & Schuster; $3.95), written with the help of Newsman Rowland Barber, Rocky even recalls the eye-gouging, gut-punching details...
...projects in their home countries to show U.S. investors. At the opening meeting, 1,200 delegates from the U.S. and 20 Latin American nations jammed New Orleans' Masonic Temple auditorium to see filmed messages of welcome from President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon. Then they got down to brass tacks...