Word: home-town
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...More than 100 calls were long distance. The grocer who first stocked Dottie's cookies celebrated the story with a 1? sale and sold out completely within an hour. All copies of TIME were sold out by noon, and both Greeley newspapers ran pictures and stories of their home-town cookie tycoon...
Director Goldovsky has no hope of making great profits out of his tour, but he expects it to break even when it winds up in home-town Boston next week. "We could have 300 touring companies in America," he says. "If we can train American audiences to believe that opera is a very good show, then we can go ahead...
...been further compromised by a monumental U.N. blunder. The U.N. had apparently handed the Indian custodial force a complete list, in English and Chinese, not only of the names, ranks and serial numbers of the P.W.s (which is all they were required to do), but of their parents and home-town addresses as well. If this list passes from the Indian guards to the Polish and Czech members of the commission, the U.N.'s basic principle of "no forced repatriation" will look sick indeed: the Communists could simply tell the P.W.s, via explainers or the camp grapevine, to return...
...that after his camera arrived in the prison camp, the Communists put him under 24-hour guard, shuttled him from camp to camp to take photographs. Added Noel: "At first, lots of the boys refused [to pose]. But when a few pictures came back in the mail from their home-town papers, they realized I was playing it straight ... I think the pictures did a lot more good than they ever could have done harm...
...crowd of jazz fans thread their way into a Bourbon Street gin mill called The Paddock. The lucky ones find seats close up at the bar, where the music is loudest, and with a deference equaling that of longhair purists, listen to an eight-piece band playing oldtime, home-town jazz. The leader of the band is a smiling, coal-black trumpet player named Oscar ("Papa") Celestin, 69 (or maybe 74), who has been playing the same kind of straight, hard jazz for more than 50 years...