Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...commissar with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War. "I always liked the organizing field," Zakman explained simply, although he admitted he "wasn't very successful at it." One day in 1950 Zakman approached one Sam Berger, then manager of an International Ladies Garment Workers Union local in New York, asked Berger to help him pick up a charter for a union. 'I had a family to support," said Zakman. "Here was a chance to organize a trade [i.e., cab drivers] that never had been organized in New York ... It would have been a good thing...
...Driver's Seat. Zakman got his charter to "organize the unorganized" from the United Automobile Workers, A.F.L. (no kin to Walter Reuther's U.A.W.-C.I.O.), later known as the Allied Industrial Workers. Who put up the money for office rent and expenses? Dio. Who became the local's business manager? Dio. Zakman began to feel put upon: Racketeer Dio was padding the local's payroll with his own boys, among them an organizer named Benny ("The Bug") Ross...
Mean Old Germs. For his oddball efforts, Soupy is rewarded with a vast local audience approaching 1,000,000 and some prestige-pushing visits from such stars as Ella Fitzgerald, Roberta Sherwood and Duke Ellington. From his two shows and numberless personal appearances, Soupy will make about $100,000 this year. He writes his own material, virtually runs both shows singlehanded. To thousands of moppets who watch Comics daily, he is a genial, long-faced man in a crushed top hat, an outsized bow tie and a bulky black sweater, who moves with rubbery ease from classic grin to classic...
Columbia Records, no slouch at thicket-hunting, bagged its latest prize in its own doorway. Barbara Eichbauer, 23, is a statuesque suburbanite who wandered into Manhattan looking for an advertising job and wound up instead as a Columbia receptionist. She had once done a little singing at a local inn back in Forest Hills, N.Y., and confided to fellow workers that she happened to have a privately made recording. Just about that time, Orchestra Leader Percy Faith, one of Columbia's stable, was looking for a young unvarnished voice to go with a young unvarnished song called What...
Paris Night Life (Columbia LP). A frantic musical tour steamy with atmosphere. It includes such international headliners as Jacqueline François and Juliette Greco, such local music-hall and cabaret favorites as Philippe Clay and Irene Lecarte. Item of three-star interest: "le rock 'n' roll" number, Alhambra Rock, bawled by Paris' chief exponent of "impétuosité frénétique," Magli Noël, in the choked wail of a wet-diapered infant...