Word: localitis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...keeping TIME'S editors up-to-date on Denver and the Rocky Mountain area is as varied as Beshoar's extensive (859,009 sq. mi.) territory. It requires a regional expert's knowledge of many fields : mining, livestock and oil, for instance, as well as local state politics. The Denver bureau's growing news file includes such stories as the Goethe Festival at Aspen, Colo. (TIME, July 11), the cow that Sot stuck in the silo (TIME, March...
Last spring a Denver bartender named Lloyd ("Red") Barker was shot and killed by his wife. Local newspapers first carried it as a routine homicide, then speculated that the victim might be the last of the four notorious Barker brothers who, with their gangster mother, terrorized the Midwest in the '30s. Barren Beshoar, chief of our Denver news bureau, set out to find...
...locksmith and went to the warehouse. There, among a litter of old shoes, shirts, letters and miscellaneous personal belongings, they found a handwritten manuscript which turned out to be Red's version of the story of the Barker brothers' life. That made the death of the local bartender national news, and the story appeared in the April...
...special recordings were hustled by air to radio stations throughout the nation. They bore messages from more than half the members of Congress to their constituents; some were five-minute talks, others were 15-minute question & answer platters. Most were concerned with the congressional news of the week. Local stations broadcast the discs as "a public service ... in the hope that listeners will gain a better understanding of the serious problems confronting our legislators...
Straight-Speaking Pictures. Also conspicuous in the show were the works of Gerard Sekoto, the only Negro artist included. Sekoto was born 35 years ago at a little hill station in the Transvaal where his father was the local mission teacher. As a child he had sketched on the sly, gotten occasional encouragement from schoolmasters, won his first prize in a school competition-a Bible and five shillings. In 1939 he set out for Johannesburg to seek his fortune as an artist. In a few years he had taught himself to paint vivid, straight-speaking pictures of fellow natives crowded...