Word: homespuns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clearly intends to be much more folksy and homespun than its prosperous competitor Newsday, which is based in adjoining Nassau County and serves the entire Island with a thorough blend of both national and local news...
...years since Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote A Study in Scarlet, the incomparable Brain of Baker Street has inspired 21 stage plays (including a Broadway musical), more than 100 movies, and radio and television dramas innumerable. And in A Study in Terror, the first in a new series of Homespun horrors financed by the Doyle estate, the original private eye is granted a timely new mortgage on immortality...
AARON COPLAND: THE TENDER LAND (Columbia). An abridgment of Copland's only major opera, set on a Midwest farm in the '30s. Though the characters sing of gingham and the smell of stew, the music is not homespun, being tenderly lyrical. A small-scale work suitable for opera workshops, it was recorded by soloists from the New York City Opera, with the Choral Art Society and the New York Philharmonic, Copland conducting...
...Homespun Doggerel. When his friend and predecessor as editor of the Post-Intelligencer sports page, Portus Baxter, retired back in 1920, Brougham made a point of visiting him regularly. He boosted Baxter's spirits by persuading the paper to pay him a small amount as a consultant. Baxter never forgot the favor. When he died 42 years later, he left Brougham a $300,000 estate that no one knew existed...
...that humility was ever a problem for Brougham. In his 56 years with the P.L, he has been more the kindly cheerleader than the captious critic. Easily the most popular sportswriter in the Northwest, he turns out homespun stories, and often winds up a column with what he calls a "pome," such as his piece of doggerel about a football recruiter: "He checks the young man's height and weight;/Can he kick and pass and run?/But here's the question the coach asks first:/'And how are your grades...