Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doing the thing I like best." He is worried about the effect of money on today's athletes. "It's not sport any more," he complains, "when a baseball player gets $100,000 a year. The sportsman is the guy who goes out there for a brass medal and honor, not just for the money." Same for the real sportswriter...
...changes all tunes. When Guy Chapman, a fledgling lawyer from the best of schools-Westminster and Oxford-marched off to war in 1915, his ragged battalion of London clerks, shopkeepers and dockers kept more or less in step to the bombastic brass of The British Grenadiers. Three years later, when, statistically, they were all dead, they marched better, but sang less nobly. Yet Chapman's battalion had earned the right to its cynical gallantry. In an introductory note to the reissue of his 1933 classic documentary of World War I, Chapman marks the score: "At the Armistice in November...
...will marry Collegemate Donna Erickson, 21, on July 9 in Minneapolis, and since the Vice President loves a party, he is turning over his eight-room house in Waverly, Minn., for the blowout reception. Hubert even promised the kids he'd bring Herb Alpert's stomping Tijuana Brass band to the party, and with all the Humphreys whooping on top of that, Waverly (pop. 580) ought to be the noisiest town north of the Pedernales...
Leontyne Price wants a chunk of the stage floor. Richard Tucker has his bid in for a slab of the proscenium arch inscribed VERDI. Rise Stevens has al ready filched the brass numeral 11 from the door of her old dressing room. Regine Crespin would like the toilet seat from No. 10; she plans to install it in her own bathroom...
...chairs ($15 each) in the boxes. Says House Manager Alfred Hubay: "Old subscribers have been complaining about those chairs for years-now they want to buy them!" Among other items sold: 15 pairs of Caruso's flesh-colored stockings (at $15 per pair), dressing-room doors ($10), brass spittoons ($25), wall sconces ($15 to $75), chandeliers ($500), columns, banisters, hat trees, and several hundred planks from the stage floor...