Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pure brass is the stuff that 20-game winners are made of, 25-year-old Bo Belinsky should have a great year. The son of a Trenton laborer, he skipped high school baseball because "you had to be a hot dog to play on our team at Trenton. I couldn't go for that 'yes sir, no sir' bit or all that 'win for the old red-and-black, sis, boom, bah.' " After working two years in an overall factory and playing sandlot ball on the side, Bo grabbed a pitching job with the Class...
...shoot for the brass ring?'' asked New Hampshire's Republican Governor Samuel Wesley Powell Jr. "Why not go for the presidency?'' So last week mused Wes Powell, 46, even as he recuperated in White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., from a mild heart attack suffered in March. The scoffers could scoff and the skeptics could skept, but Powell was in dead earnest about grabbing for the brass ring in 1964. He had already laid out a set of plans, based mainly on his record as a rip-roaring stump speaker, a perpetual-motion campaigner...
...Horizontal Lieutenant. A brass-button burlesque starring Jim Hutton and Paula Prentiss...
...renewed the invitation to Marshall to attend the Harvard Commencement and to . Again he declined. Bell, as President of the Alumni Association, was authorized to select speakers from a confidential list of honorary candidate from the Corporation. Bell had President Conant that he was about to name any high brass like admiral or a general; but the President of the University replied that would never do, the public would not stand for it. So Bell selected General Bradley, at that time Administrator of Veterans Affairs, as speaker...
...poured into the Phoenicia Hotel for opening-day glimpses of an unconventional attraction: a large, strikingly modern room resplendent with teakwood ceiling, Abyssinian peacock-wood paneling and a floor of peacock-blue carpeting. Marveling, the visitors ran eager hands over a milky terrazzo counter embedded with tiny pieces of brass to simulate marine life on an ocean bottom. Some of the visitors even opened an account. For though it looked for all the world like a cocktail lounge, the room was the newest branch of Lebanon's Intra Bank. "Nobody's wandered in and asked for a drink...