Word: home-town
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Moscow may crow about its subway system, and Parisiennes make love in the "Metro," but nobody likes the MTA. Armed with a home-town Newspaper, the pedestrian has merely to descend into the Harvard Square station to reason why: the price of a ride has risen to twenty cents...
...century American atmosphere, has some pleasantly lyrical snatches and brightly mocking ditties. John Latouche's words are for the most part gay, ingenious and witty. There are weak spots. The show at times is a bit fancy, at others a bit cute; and the Iliad yields less rewarding home-town stuff than the Odyssey does hotcha...
...ended with plenty of brass, but in the middle it made appealing use of melodic interweavings in the strings. And though Composer Kay's melody kept getting interrupted by conflicting ideas, it also kept coming back. When the nine-minute work was over, the crowd gave the home-town composer the biggest hand of the evening...
...Journal drives home its position on such matters as segregation by its own example. On its society pages, it prints-as very few other papers do-pictures and stones about Negroes. The paper doesn't crusade in the manner of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (TIME, Dec. 21). It aims to nip corruption before it gets a start, as it covers the city like a vacuum cleaner, picking up any small specks of dirt along with everything else. It also never forgets that it is a home-town daily. Cinemactors Pat O'Brien and Jack Carson are "Milwaukee...
...choosing call letters, many stations have managed to latch on to complete words (e.g., WANT, KING, WREN, KID, KEEP). Others seek home-town identification with abbreviations or by using the first three letters of their respective cities, as WBAL in Baltimore and WNYC for New York's municipal station. None has surpassed the simplicity of station WACO in Waco, Texas...