Word: localism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lloyd Jordan's dismissal has not yet been finally approved, but already more than a dozen possible successors have been nominated by the local press. Although the Committee's recommendation has attracted considerable attention outside this area, candidates for Jordan's position are almost entirely local figures...
...Another local figure with a relevant success-story is Harry Arlanson of Tufts. Arlanson feathered his third season in the neighborhood by herding the Jumbos over the Crimson, 19 to 12 last fall. Reportedly well satisfied, Arlanson said last night he would listen if approached...
Enthusiastic Search. By 1944 the group was becoming familiar to French radio listeners, but the members still supported themselves and their wives by jobbing in local orchestras. In 1948 Delvincourt lent them a house in Paris (willed to him by a music-loving friend). "It was very little, very dirty, very uncomfortable," says Jacques Parrenin. "Our wives didn't want to live there." Actually, after some refurbishing, all members and their families have lived there contentedly for the past eight years, played from morning till night. They got a few concert dates, and in 1952 came the break: they...
...punctuated by Casimir's sky-scanning Delphic queries: "Are the Life-Gods and the Fate-Gods willing?" Hilda is willing, and there is scarcely a dull moment spent with the count as he 1) sees his first roller-skating show wrecked by a storm, 2) witnesses a local bigwig being shot to death by a bordello madam, 3) two-times Hilda with a carnival doxy billed as ''Phazma the Phlame Girl." 4) has his second roller-skating show filched by a double-crossing partner, 5) goes back to the sea with visions of greater roller rinks. Obviously...
...Moby Dick into port." He took an after-school job as runner and stack boy at the Boston Public Library at 60? a night. At a library employees' show, he did a juggling act that wowed his fellow workers. Soon he was haunting the dingy headquarters of a local amateur-night impresario...