Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rotary Foundation Fellowships for Advanced Study requires application to the hometown Rotary Club, preferably during the summer. Closing date for application varies with the local Rotary Club...
...second time in four years, the AFL is waging an all-out campaign to enlist unskilled University employees. In 1954 the national union was soundly defeated; this spring Local 254 of the AFL Building Service Employees' International Union has assigned five full-time organizers to see that it does not happen again and to assure the addition of 1,100 new members to its ranks...
...Virginia and half in Tennessee. There he ploughed tobacco rows, hunted coons and went cat-fishing. Occasionally the sheriff would ask him and his mother to come down to the jail and sing hymns to the prisoners. At 18 he was a $10-a-week announcer on a local station, went on to Cincinnati Conservatory of Music with ambitions of becoming a professional concert baritone. "But the folks was havin' to scratch and grind for a few bucks," so Ernie went back to odd radio jobs. In California he joined Hillbilly Cliffie Stone's local show, Hometown Jamboree...
Some of the liveliest Gettysburgiana was turned up by city editors' efforts to find a local angle. Miami Herald reporters managed to extract opinions from a Robert E. Lee. a Colonel Guilford R. Montgomery, a Jack Mead and a Mrs. A. J. Eisenhower. Historian (Lincoln Finds a General) Kenneth P. Williams was traced to Bloomington. Ind. by the Atlanta Constitution, and allowed that "it would have been rather unjust to replace Lee for that one battle." Mrs. Robert E. Lee III, identified as "the widow of the Generals grandson," confided to the Washington Post and Times Herald that...
...Lucky Jim emerges: that of the intellectual spiv ruthlessly making his luck. Joe Lampton is only a town clerk, but he knows what he wants-an Aston-Martin sports car, a villa in Cannes, and a girl who will look just right in either. When the daughter of the local industrial tycoon pops the question, "Joe, do you really love me?" Joe coos back sweet nothings in the shape of five zeros: "A hundred thousand pounds' worth." Room at the Top suggests for the first time that the Welfare State can be used as a runway for a take...