Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today and just today, destiny strikes twice. Deans, coaches, politicians, and local advertisers are just waiting to see you. All the details, plus some liquid refreshment, lie behind the little red doors at 14 Plympton Street. Come in at 7:30 p.m. tonight and make your college career complete...
...between Stonewall Jackson and Nonagenarian Barbara Fritchie, tidied up some leftover history. Two years after its encounter with Jackson, Frederick was threatened with the torch by Confederate General Jubal Early, bought him off by putting up $200,000 in ransom money which the town borrowed in haste from five local banks. Ever since, Frederick's taxpayers have been paying off the debt. Last week, with a final installment of $20,000, Mayor Donald Rice paid the last of the ransom. ¶ In Los Angeles, James and Harry Kazan ian had a 1,318-carat sapphire, valued at about...
...Time for Jokes. Roger Lamy hurried to a telephone and told a friend: "It's me, Roger Lamy." "It is a poor time for jokes," replied the friend. "Roger is dead." The local police, when he called them, were equally unamused; "Funny business is not funny when it concerns the police," a cop growled. He agreed at last, as a public service, to transmit the dead man's message to his sister. The first real partisan Roger found in his fight for life was a Professor from the Lycee. "I would never leave a man alone...
...Angeles' West Hollywood Auditorium one night last week, there was enough long hair to string a gross of fiddles.* About 600 of the local intelligentsia-artists, music students and professionals-turned up to hear a dozen or so musicians play a program of choice chamber music. It would have been quite all right with the musicians if no listeners had turned up at all. For the concerts called "Evenings on the Roof" (now in their 14th season) are "for the pleasure of the performers, and will be played regardless of audience...
...heel or a hero," but heel or hero he was destined to be. Morrow had been trying to get rid of Jim Crow in the city's public schools for the past six months-ever since the state legislature passed a law leaving the decision up to local communities...