Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last month, is an informal meet with the University of Massachusetts, big Geoff Tootell picked up a leather-bound brass ball and flipped it 50 feet, 9 7/8 inches, unofficially breaking a Harvard record. Last week, in New York, in the N.Y.A.C. games, Yale's Jim Fuchs put the shot nearly seven feet farther and broke the indoor record . . . and thereby hangs a sad story...
Educators have contributed more names to the 1950-51 edition of "Who's Who in America" than any other occupational group. The leading bracket, which includes college presidents and administrative "tops," high-ranking professors, deans, and similar "educational brass," is trailed closely by businessmen...
...first belt of sound from the brasses pinned them to their chairs. Lanky Stan Kenton flapped his arms like a scarecrow in a hurricane as the 38-piece band blasted out a "montage" of the jazzed-up dissonances that Kentonites have slavered over since 1941: Artistry in Percussion, Opus in Pastels, Artistry Jumps. Every once in a while he gave them a breather: blonde June Christy came onstage and cooed Get Happy, Lonesome Road and I'll Remember April. Most of the time it was a bewildering battle between the violins, violas and cellos on one side...
Picture Banned. Hollywood kept its comment down to whispers. Privately, most of the high movie brass professed to take a dim view of Actress Bergman's professional future. Only Colleen Townsend, the starlet who is reportedly quitting films to become a divinity student, spoke up. She recalled the Bible story of the woman taken in adultery: "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone." The first stone was promptly cast by 83-year-old Memphis Censor Lloyd T. Binford, who announced that he was banning Stromboli without seeing it, along with all other Bergman pictures...
Fuchs record may not be recognized, however, because of his failure to use the prescribed leather covered ball. For Saturday's throws, Fuchs usd his favorite iron covered brass pellet...