Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...college football then retreated themselves to the palsied field of amateur football, halting only to buy an occasional Big-Time team. Present-day Stadium diehards might also be pleased to learn that from 1938 to 1941 the hapless Yalies won 7 and lost 24 games and still survived. Local readers will also find new background and stories of Crimson great like Percy Haughton who brought Harvard into the national spotlight, and walloped Yale 36 to 0, and 41 to 0 after allegedly strangling bulldog pups to work his teams into the proper attitude toward the Elis...
...essential stickers will be stripped from Massachusetts cars by local inspection centers under a recent directive from the State Reglstry of Motor Vehicles. Inspection centers, however, have been instructed to leave on stickers for the University parking...
...those Bostonians who are fed up with the endless parade of soap-operas, vaudevillian corn, shallow theatricals, and bebop concerts. It offers the culture-starved full length drama performances, live music concerts, poetry read by the authors, and--most novel of all--regular courses recorded in classrooms of local colleges and universities. For those who like their news with a dash of intelligence, WGBH will call in faculty experts to analyze and interpret current affairs. Those whose yen for practical information goes beyond the chatty shopper's guide will get advice from such institutions as the Nursery Training School...
This year the National Collegiate Athletic Association has limited football television to one local and one local and one outside game per week in an effort to judge the influence of telecasting on paid attendance...
Last weekend, for instance, Theatre Network Television, which promotes the broadcasts, sent over the Princeton-Navy game. The management of the Pilgrim apparently didn't have much better luck than local proprietors of stadiums in drawing a crowd for a ball game. Most of the audience, which sat sullenly in its seats nibbling popcorn, seemed to favor Princeton. A good many were Nassau expatriates doing graduate work here. Sailors attended in scattered clumps and watched the proceedings with mixed feelings. Service pride demanded that they cheer for their future officers most of the time but when things went awry...