Word: localizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Four local restaurants have received formal reprimands from the Cambridge License Commission for violating liquor regulations in selling alcoholic beverages to minors...
...Pupil Placement Act removed from local school boards and division superintendents all power to assign pupils, and placed it in the hands of a state board...
...opera was off the beaten track, the passage soft and opulent, and the boys from Local 802 were not digging it. "Say," said one to Conductor Arnold U. Gamson, "you're highbrow, aren't you?" Patiently Gamson explained what the passage was about, finally told them: "It's like the music for a striptease." That did it. The violins became silky, the horns impassioned, and everyone proceeded with the rehearsal of Anna Bolena, one of Gaetano Donizetti's rarely played masterpieces...
...youngster in Nitro, W. Va. (whose 5,000 residents call it "Powdertown" from its origin as a World War I gunpowder producer), Burdette was a late starter in baseball. The local high school had no team, so Lew-or "Froggy" as the kids nicknamed him after his voice began to change-filled in his days holding a cue at the Idle Hour Pool Room or heaving rocks through windows. "One night," recalled an old chum in Nitro last week, "a gang of us were knocking out windows in the Nazarene Church. Lew was half a block behind us, standing...
...under the caption WANTED. In an adjoining column Editor Keyser reported solemnly that a well-known Baltimore County contractor had "committed suicide by jumping into one of his own cement mixers" and had become "an integral part of the new wing on the County Court House." Said another story: LOCAL...