Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Graham's meetings, like his neckties, are less noisy than they used to be. Sounding brass and tinkling cymbal have been replaced by straight choir singing, with a simple organ and piano accompaniment. As the audience arrives (babies may be left in special nurseries known to the Graham staff as "bawl rooms"), Choir Leader Cliff Barrows is warming up the singers. Song books are passed around to the crowd; then Barrows invites the audience to sing, swinging a glittering trombone; Bass-Baritone Bev Shea goes into action with a few oldtime-religion songs, and the collection and an invocation...
...blue-water man, Morison dishes out most of his criticism to the other services. He pans Army brass for not pushing through plans to seize Rome by air after Mussolini's fall; had they done so, he says, the slogging campaign up southern Italy would not have been needed. Anzio, he thinks, was a blunder. But in general, says Morison, the Italian campaign was worth it all-unpopular like Grant's Wilderness campaign of 1864, but equally a campaign that had to be fought. Its bloody cost was more than repaid in Normandy's victories weeks later...
Last week at 72, Organist Mayer found himself the center of a major ruckus that involved socialites and Senators, a fair share of Army brass and two Presidents of the U.S. The crux of the matter: Mayer is past the compulsory retirement age for civil servants, and he is not ready to retire...
Fifth Day. Next morning, to break the developing stalemate, John Foster Dulles took Mendès-France aside and asked him bluntly: "Just what are you after- everything?" The ministers shooed all but one aide each out of the conference room and settled down to a tough brass-tacks bar gaining session. The result was a compromise plan proposed by Dulles and made acceptable to the French by a generous new pledge from Konrad Adenauer. West Germany, he promised, would "never have recourse to force to achieve reunification [of Germany]." The Dulles-Adenauer compromise provided that: 1 ) Germany would agree...
Died. Jay Catherwood Hormel, 61, board chairman of George A. Hormel & Co.; of a heart ailment; in Austin, Minn. As a World War I lieutenant in the Quartermaster Corps, Hormel won the plaudits of the brass by showing meat packers how to bone beef before it was shipped overseas (saving 40% in cargo space), came home to make a fortune for his father's meat-packing company and fame of a different sort in World War II by inventing Spam, a canned pork product, which became the ubiquitous item on Allied military menus the world over. In 1931 Iconoclast...