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...BRAZEN BRASS ZINGS THE STRINGS (Henry Jerome and His Orchestra; Decca). Mood music played by an orchestra so artfully fragmented in the studio and reassembled that a listener with a mind to can believe he is sitting among the first violins. Mostly for audio addicts...
...first of the great Negro champions and a man whose full-blown arrogance inspired fans to cry for "a great white hope." Semiliterate, surly and suspicious, Liston starts telephone conversations with "It's your dime, start talking," ends them without warning, on a grunt and a click. Brazen and tough, he has been arrested 19 times since 1950, convicted twice (armed robbery, assaulting a police officer), spent a total of three years in prison. His underworld connections are notorious: he worked as a head-knocking labor goon for St. Louis Hoodlum John Vitale, and his boxing career was supervised...
Last week, with a full-page ad that managed to run in an early edition of the New York Herald Tribune, he perpetrated one of Broadway's most brazen jokes...
...heard, his New England morality was shocked when a French lady leaned across the dinner table and asked him to explain, as an obviously direct descendant of Adam, how the first man and woman "found out the Art of lying together." Adams did his best "to set a brazen face against a brazen face," explained it was a simple matter of instinct. But later upon reflection he wrote: "If such are the manners of Women of Rank, Fashion and Reputation in France, they can never support a Republican Government. We must therefore take great care not to import them into...
Fight for Rights. Against this brazen Russian approach, any show of weakness by the U.S. would be disastrous. President Kennedy continued his crucial attempts to convince Khrushchev once and for all that the U.S. will indeed fight to preserve the rights of the free world in West Berlin. The Pentagon's plans to beef up U.S. defenses in Europe and at home were well publicized. Joined by Great Britain and France, the U.S. warned the Russians to keep hands off Western flights into Berlin, implied that any interference by Russian planes would be met by force...