Word: localism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Local sportsmen give the powerful Holworthy six a two-touchdown edge over Straus, since they shut out Mower, 47 to 0, and Mathews South, 61 to 0. Holworthy is the highest scorer in both leagues, with a total of 161 points scored to their opponents...
Lipstick stains on clean white shirts may annoy students, but they are welcomed by local laundries. The cleaning establishments report that the girls well serve the cleaning profession...
...with Bertie McCormick's Tribune (circ. 955,000), was the banner-and-big-pictures treatment of the standard tabloid. In its place, readers got smaller cuts and news stories. The new Sun-times team gave most of the Page One play to national and international news instead of local stories...
Whenever Hollywood's box office slips, as it did last month,* puzzled moviemen ponder such possible causes as the weather, the crops and the local bingo games. Last week a fledgling producer, Novelist Polan (There Goes Lona Henry) Banks, offered a fresher theory: Hollywood has been underestimating the power of a woman. Banks told the Motion Picture Herald...
...publishers call The Eye of God (the name of the local mountain) a novel. It isn't. Anecdotes don't make a novel any more than edelweiss make an alp; but when Bemelmans does the picking, they make a bright nosegay...