Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Parades, songs, slogans, brass bands and banners are constantly used to incite the people; plays, books, meetings, orations ceaselessly repeat the message that old China is now a country grown young. A poem of the Tang dynasty (A.D. 618-906) reads...
...superfluous, and even the "Hey" in one of their football songs was fairly pallid. The first half of their selections slogged along rather dully during a medley of Three German Romantic Choruses by Schubert, Schumann, and Weber, respectively. The horn accompaniment, though an improvement over many a brass ensemble, still cast a submarine gloom over three already drab and awkward numbers...
...promises to tell her husband about her lover, "but not before Christmas.'' There is a scandalously funny how-he-caught-her-with-the-other-man scene, in which the dentist blandly fails to catch on, that takes place in an Amsterdam hotel room on and around twin brass beds, and the triangle is augmented by a Dutch dental supply manufacturer and a bellhop translator. What follows is a kind of bilingual What's My Line? panel quiz that all by itself makes the evening worth its comic weight in inflated Broadway pennies...
...vice-presidency for manufacturing before leaving in 1958 to head the Sears-affiliated Whirlpool Corp. But his appointment helped kill the enthusiasm of Sol Cantor, president of New York's discount-minded Interstate Department Stores, for a previously planned merger with Ward. Cantor and other Interstate brass were miffed when Ward's Chairman John Barr did not check the selection of Brooker with them...
...rocketlike rise makes it a serious challenge to the once unchallenged monarch of the vending industry, Chicago's Automatic Canteen Co. Another fast comer is Interstate Vending Co. of Chicago, which has bought 25 companies in the past year and recently acquired New York's Brass Rail restaurant and catering chain. (A pioneer in preparing restaurant-quality dinners for vending, Brass Rail supplies machine-served meals to General Electric employees at G.E.'s New York home office.) Interstate's President Ronald Wolff, 31, has made himself one of vending's new millionaires since he started...