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...things really got started was in late '41, after Pearl Harbor. Actually for me, before that time. I was a student at the University of Denver. That's my hometown. And we were all signing up to join the Army Air Corps. Many of my classmates had run off to Canada. That was when you'd run off to Canada to get into a war, not stay out of one. In fact, my classmate Keith Johnson got shot down in the Battle of Britain. So we were all signing up. But a professor of mine said, 'Don't sign...
...however, that USA Today has not hurt the circulation of their own papers. Publisher Black is not surprised, since USA Today has never been touted as a replacement for local papers. According to Black, the paper has created a unique audience made up, in part, of those who read hometown papers for local stories and ads but want a comprehensive capsule of national and international news, plus a sizable number of people who were never daily-newspaper buyers until USA Today came along...
...June bug of being around when the weather turns cool. A few, however, are making serious tryouts for the regular season schedule. Next month CBS will unveil West 57th, a new magazine show that could return in midseason if it does well. Also set for August is CBS's Hometown, an hour comedy-drama about a group of college friends from the '60s who reunite for some soul searching in the '80s. The resemblance to The Big Chill is impossible to miss: characters reminisce about antiwar rallies and ponder the implications of "getting caught up in the mainstream." Despite...
...Hometown is shaping up as this summer's Call to Glory. Like ABC's critically applauded family drama, introduced last August, Hometown is hoping to build an audience during the last weeks of summer; a spot is already reserved for it on the fall schedule. The trick will be to avoid the fate of Call to Glory, which started strongly but gradually withered under the fall competition. Like any other series looking to survive beyond the summer, Hometown must prove it is a show for all seasons. --By Richard Zoglin. Reported by Richard Woodbury/Los Angeles
...after keeping hometown eyes distracted while his teammates took their turns at-bat, Wilson got his first opportunity to prove to them that he was the real deal...