Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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KRAFT MUSIC HALL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass play host for the first of this "series of specials" that will feature different hosts and guests each week. Guests on "And All That Brass" are Louis Armstrong, Jackie Vernon and Robin Wilson...
...eleven survivors from Hill 488 mingled with the brass that glittered in the East Room of the White
...currently hot Wells, Rich, Greene agency (other accounts: Benson & Hedges 100s and Braniff airlines), which plans to tackle the Mustang headon, with the pitch that the new car has features-contour bumpers, hand-welded roof, more leg room-that make it a swell value. A.M.C.'s brass expects the total specialty market to reach 1,000,000 car sales next year, counts on the Javelin to capture a 5% slice, or 50,000 cars. Added to American's present 250,-000-a-year sales level, it would bring the company to what it calculates as its break-even...
They are the proud invention of London Furniture Manufacturers Leslie Costick and Ralph Shafran, who last year found that Britain's deepening recession was drying up their once lively business of producing, among other things, such pub parts as oak bar tops and brass rails. If the home market had gone sour, they wondered, why not look abroad, where English-style pubs seem increasingly popular. After all, says Costick, in some U.S. pseudo-pubs, "they even have a tartan in the act, because they are not sure what is England and what is Scotland...
...themselves "Seargent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," and that the album cover depicts a wake at the grave of that old and outdated group called the Beatles. The new name stirs up nostalgic images of a group of old Edwardians seated on a bandstand in military uniforms playing brass marches in a simpler age of long summer afternoons. The Beatles may also know that the Edwardian age was one of violent idealistic movements, once described as "Britain's national nervous breakdown," and much closer our own age than most people realize...