Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arcadiens, a local amateur team composed of former college players and members of past Olympic teams, proved formidable foes for the Crimson. They were sparked by Normie Wood, captain of the '54 Harvard team, who scored twice...
Yovicsin's first year has been a remarkable one. He survived the tireless battery of questions from the local press, the scepticism of many, a discouraging wave of injuries which resulted in something of a "jinx" year for the football team, and the demands made from both the Ivy Towers and the clubrooms. Yet he can still smile shyly from behind his desk in the Indoor Athletic Building and say honestly, "I'm certainly looking forward to next year...
Mumbo, Jumbo & Bumbo. Other local poets-Lawrence Ferlinghetti (Junk Man's Obligate) and Kenneth Patchen (Hurrah for Anything), et al.-have moved into the jazz clubs. "All these Kenneths," comments Kenneth Rexroth, "sound a little like Mumbo, Jumbo and Bumbo, each the biggest elephant in the world...
...Citizen has built a circulation of 25,000, while the News's has dropped 50% (to 17,000). In the first three weeks of November the Citizen ran 65,093 in. of local, national and classified ads, while the News carried only 39,346 in. Said the Citizen's Business Manager Wayne Current: "Never before has a newspaper stepped in and taken the lead in national advertising in so short a period...
Three Piano Musketeers. Manhattan-born Pianist Graffman, 29, played for the first time with a full symphony orchestra (the Indianapolis) when he was still a knickerbockered scholarship student at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music. A local critic decided that his "assurance, ease and poise" were "a bit terrifying." The son of Russian-born parents, he followed a path after Indianapolis that is familiar to many another promising young U.S. soloist: special award in the Rachmaninoff Fund's nationwide piano contest, guest appearances with half a dozen U.S. symphonies, an RCA Victor recording contract. In the in-between...