Word: gripes
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...effort to avoid offense, the song board softened one line. For "We may gripe and yell/ But we fight like hell" there is now an inoffensive alternate: "But we'll fight, fight, fight/ Fight with all our might." The song will have its official unveiling this week when Secretary Pace introduces it on Jane Froman's TV show. After that, the Pentagon will wait three months to see whether it catches on. If not, the song board will look around for another...
...everything else must take a back seat. Nobody disagreed. Then a general understanding was reached on a wide range of back-seat matters: cut spending before cutting taxes, consult with Congressmen before making appointments, let the Senate deal with its own rules on filibustering. Senator Young had a particular gripe; he had heard that Ike's Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Benson would not support a 90% farm parity program. In no time at all, Eisenhower's Attorney General Herbert Brownell had Benson on the long-distance phone and talking with Young. The Senators all came away from their...
...says Szell, "at combining the virtuosity and polish and opulence that are characteristic of top-ranking American orchestras with the expressive abandon of typically European orchestras in their best days." And he adds: "If you give me a week, I might think of a gripe...
Said her colleague, to gripe...
...foot soldiers' longstanding gripe against hazard-duty pay for fliers, submariners and paratroops finally got attention on Capitol Hill last July. Last week the foot soldiers took a hard look at Congress' decision and groaned...