Word: localism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lebanon, is presumably another Goldfine property. In 1955, Textron Inc., then Mascoma's owner, served notice that it planned either to dismantle or sell Mascoma. Into the picture stepped Lebanon's First Selectman Joseph Perley, another Goldfine friend; Perley was a prime civic mover in reducing local taxes on Goldfine local properties, with the result that Lebandale Mills, listing assets of nearly $1,000,000, paid only $2,528 in town taxes last year. Perley said he knew of an Ohio textile firm that would buy Mascoma-although he declined to reveal its name. The Ohio firm never...
...untalkative. Their arsonists burned one restaurant whose owner was seen with committee investigators (TIME, May 26); other hoods threatened other prospective witnesses by visit and telephone. But silver-haired Donald Strang, for one, would not be terrified. Strang, 56, turned up to tell what happened when a mob-run local of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union staked professional pickets around his Howard Johnson restaurant at suburban Niles (pop. 15,000) in 1952. Items...
...wanted to meet businessmen. Rotary's pin was reserved for the town's leading man in each line of business; second-ranking Kiwanis, later tagged "the grey flannel suit boys" by Lions, used "We Trade" as its motto and admitted only two members from each recognized local enterprise...
...approach is the same. Previews gets 1½% of the asking price for handling a property on a three-year contract, advertises it with attractive brochures, often distributed to as many as 5,000 other brokers. When the property is sold, Previews picks up another 2½%. The local broker also gets a commission...
Stage Struck. Local girl making good on Broadway-the hard way; with Susan Strasberg, Henry Fonda (TIME, April...