Word: hometown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brooklyn's joy was shared by the iron-mining hamlet of Witherbee. N.Y. (pop. 1,050), hometown of Johnny Podres, the son of a Lithuanian-American miner. Series Hero Podres, who earns about $1 1,000 for an entire season's work, stayed in Manhattan just long enough to pick up $3,000 for TV guest appearances, and a $9,768 check for his winner's share of the series gate. Then he drove home to Witherbee in a new white Corvette sports car that he won for being the series star. A testimonial dinner was planned...
Bawling Burgher. This month, hometown boosters followed the team to West Germany at their own expense to watch them fight to get the championship back. Wherever the Vs tuned up in practice games, Penticton rooters made a loud and loyal crew. To their surprise, they got a lot of outside support. While the Vs were trouncing a pickup team of Berliners, German spectators screamed: "Beat the Russians! Beat the Russians...
...added six new suburban sections (Westchester County, Nassau, Hudson, etc.) and started do-it-yourself features to appeal to new homeowners. But the journalistic move to the suburbs is not easy. Distribution costs are high, and competition is tough from suburban papers that cover their area with a "hometown" thoroughness no New York paper can match, e.g., Long Island's tabloid Newsday (TIME, Sept. 13). Not long ago, Captain Joe's versatile daughter Alicia Patterson, boss of Newsday, told a New York publisher: "If you come out here, we'll knock hell...
...Hometown decision," snorted Hurley, as if he meant it. "There's been a lot of jealousy in Seattle. We fought there too often, I guess...
Among the other cartoons are two by Updike which are easily the best in this issue. Eric Wentworth's "Hometown Newspapers" is amazing because of the presence of a small thatched thing which defies description. It is perhaps the most ludicrous creature ever drawn...