Word: criers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...urge to rough it build their homes and swimming pools amid the rocks and woods of Hollywood Hills, an area just north of Hollywood. There, deer, skunks, possum and even rattlesnakes are often seen. To complete the illusion of country life, almost everybody in Hollywood Hills reads the Canyon Crier (circ. 6,500), a fortnightly tabloid which one admirer calls "a New Yorker with its shoes off." For its pheasant-under-glass audience, the homey Crier dishes up an oatmeal fare. It treats everybody in Hollywood Hills as if they were small-town neighbors. The Crier reports their most trivial...
...celebrated by bringing out his fifth-anniversary edition. An ex-scriptwriter for M.G.M., Rose has a one-man editorial staff: his wife Betsy, once his assistant at M.G.M. Rose, a World War II veteran who didn't want to get back into the Hollywood rat race, bought the Crier for less than $1,800, when it had a mere 1,800 circulation and was losing money. He went out soliciting subscriptions and ads while Betsy did most of the reporting and writing. Now the Crier yields Norman and Betsy Rose a tidy profit of almost $10,000 a year...
Flatlanders & Hillsiders. A Crier touch of satire is its tongue-in-cheek division of the world into "Hillsiders" (the residents of Hollywood Hills) and "Flatlanders" (everybody else). Rose occasionally uses the nicknames to needle racial intolerance. Sample: "Flatlanders are O.K., but how would you like your sister to marry...
...event that oure Pilgrimme fathers hae decreed the morrow as a feast day during which much of a wild birde beknownst as Thurkee will be consumed in grate quantity, the editares hae decided upon no towne crier on that...