Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Benson." For two years, he spread the Mormon gospel through the slums of Newcastle, hard hit by postwar depression. Clad in workman's pants and a green turtleneck sweater, young Benson became a familiar figure preaching to groups of unemployed on street corners. He organized athletic clubs, ran picnics, signed up converts. Many a Newcastle oldtimer still refers to him fondly as "our Benson." Said one last week: "He spoke with the voice...
More Marvels. Next day, on a farm "typical ... of the Sovietization of agriculture," they stood dazzled at equipment standard on most big U.S. dairy farms. "Milking is done by a machine " said the U.P. story, "taking the milk in an overhead glass tube to a central point . . . The only familiar note: "We had a good laugh on Jim Wick when he slipped and landed right in a mudhole...
Certainly no House man regrets his coming. Eddie says he can tell how long a man has been in the House by whether he's called "Mr. Chamberlain," "Hey Eddie," or something more familiar, if less exact. His popularity bobs up in the form of long bull sessions with the House men, coupled with Eddie's own brand of fatherly advice to their dates when they sign in. "If you need any help," Eddie informed one lady, "just whistle 32 times." "It takes 20 minutes to sign my girl in when Eddie's there," said a helpless escort...
Evenwith these lags, New Faces is a bright, fast-paced production. Many of the new faces have the talent and personality to become nationally familiar. And in the case of Eartha Kitt, any delay is inexcusable...
Manhattan gallerygoers are an experienced lot. Within the space of a few blocks on syth Street they can see every kind of painting, from pensive and pastoral to wild and woolly, from dully familiar to aggressively frightful. But even the initiates who pushed into the crowded gallery where Willem de Kooning's latest paintings were on show last week came out reeling a little...