Word: localize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Painter Braque was born 66 years ago and was brought up in Le Havre. His father, a house painter, encouraged the boy's attempts to draw, but his teachers at the local Ecole des Beaux Arts wondered why. A slow, deliberate student, Braque accomplished nothing much until 1909, the year he teamed up with Picasso. The two became inseparable and for a while their work was almost indistinguishable. Together they invented "cubism"*-painting the visible world as if it were built of tiny blocks, and tumbling the blocks about at will...
...national conference announced the establishment of a National Foundation for Cerebral Palsy, to act as a clearinghouse of information and to coordinate local organizations throughout the country. Said Leonard Goldenson, a vice president of Paramount Pictures, Inc. and president of the new foundation: "We are in the same position today that the infantile paralysis people were 15 years ago. The big problem, and a costly one, is in training . . . the public...
...Britain, the decision on how much sex education to teach in the nation's schools is up to local authorities; last week Britons were arguing the subject furiously. One row had flared up when a 14-year-old unwed mother traced part of her troubles to the mothercraft course in her East Sussex school, designed "to teach girls the care of young babies...
...register (last year the Star was seventh in the U.S. in ad volume), President Kauffmann had no intention of interfering with able Editor Benjamin M. McKelway, 53, who was re-elected last week. And Ben McKelway had no intention of changing the Star's editorial formula of printing local news in great detail and dodging controversial civic issues. Last week he cautiously introduced a larger body type (but the same old Ionic) for better readability...
...piece of out & out bathos. But script No. 3 is a solid bite of meatiest Maugham. The Kite is the story of Herbert Sunbury (George Cole), a simple-minded city lad with a possessive mom (Hermione Baddeley) and a small boy's passion for flying kites on the local commons. But Herbert's young bride wants him with no kite strings-nor silver cords-attached. When he refuses to cut loose, she kicks him out and plays him a dirty trick. "She smashed me koyte!" mourns Herbert. Back at Mom's he vengefully refuses...