Word: localism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...president of the largest local union of professional musicians (30,000 members), I naturally read with great interest your comprehensive review of the state of music in America. The one individual who has made this picture possible is the professional musician, and he is, as you point out, its worst victim. There should be a change in our copyright laws to permit the musician a voice in where recordings and other mechanical reproductions are used, and an equitable share of the profits therefrom...
...MANUTI President, Local 802, A.F. of M. New York City
Black Sheath. Now in its second year as a local show, plain-speaking Confession not only keeps its viewers goggling at its "crusade against crime" but manages so responsible a grip on its sensational material that it has won the help and plaudits of Dallas churchmen and law-enforcement officials. Questioner Wyatt, 40, who originated and produces the show, is a onetime disk jockey, radio writer and veteran of Madison Avenue ad agencies who fled to Texas 3½ years ago, and spends most of his time running a Dallas ad business. Says he: "This may sound corny...
...install a ski lift on Boyne Mountain in Michigan. Today Boyne Mountain has a heated swimming pool, private golf course, two snowmaking machines and a second ski lift near by. Hotels and motels are jammed, and the whole area is booming. "It's better than a plant," says local banker Robert A. Campbell, whose deposits rose $1,000,000 to a total of $6,500,000 during the year. "The dollars just spread out to every phase of the local economy...
Growing up in small-town Mason City, Iowa, Composer-Author-Lyricist Meredith Willson tootled his flute in the local band, watched the trotters at the county fair, pumped water for Saturday-night baths, was taught to beware of anyone who smoked cigarettes, especially tailor-mades. "Innocent-that was the adjective for Iowa," says Willson. "I didn't have to make anything up for The Music Man. All I had to do was remember...