Word: hometown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...office's voluminous releases to hometown newspapers, Pittenger maintains, are valuable tools for the enticement of the intelligent, athletically-oriented high school student. Hometown releases, he thinks, have a tremendous influence on secondary school boys "who wonder how the fellow who went to Harvard is doing...
...touchdown tied the score at 22-22. Then, with 32 seconds to go, Notre Dame's massive (6 ft., 225 lbs.) End Monty Stickles tried a field goal from the Navy 33, buried his head in a teammate's chest until he heard the roar of the hometown South Bend crowd that announced he had booted his team to a 25-22 victory in one of the year's memorable battles...
...eleven of our Aero Commander planes. I can't even sell one to the military. How's that for influence?" When it comes to pressuring for contracts, he charged that the real big leaguers are in Congress itself. "Every time some Congressman wants a contract for a hometown favorite, the Pentagon is supposed to jump." Businessmen noted that Representative Santangelo himself complained that New York was not getting its fair share of contracts; the West Coast was getting all the gravy...
...questions than any other head of state. Last week, back in Moscow from eight days of spellbinding in Hungary, Khrushchev mounted a rostrum in Luzhniki Sports Palace, apologized for a strained throat, and then went at it for 45 minutes, getting more laughs and a bigger hand from his hometown audience than he got for all of his speechifying before numbed Hungarians...
...show the right side of things, Grit has a staff of 22 headed by Editor Kenneth Dean Rhone, 50, a staffer for 26 years, who got his start, while a student at the University of Michigan, as "director of tourist publicity" for hometown Williamsport's Chamber of Commerce. Editor Rhone gets steady contributions from a corps of 100 part-time correspondents around the nation, carries weekly some $20,000 worth of ads. Grit comes out in three editions each week: city and area (40,000), state (112,000) and national (728,000). Subscriptions are almost all hustled...