Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Susan." Then the big, fluttery eyes, shiny bangs and friendly full-moon face of Susan Heinkel, 12, brightened the TV screen. After eight ingratiating months as a mistress of ceremonies, star performer and pitchgirl (13 sponsors, e.g., Kellogg's, Pepsi-Cola) on Chicago's most popular local daytime show, Susan was doing her first network edition of Susan's Show over 69 stations (Sat., 11 a.m. E.D.T., CBS). Unruffled and unassuming ("We must remember," she reminded her mother before air time, "it's just another show"), she mulled over homework in an oversized kitchen (to make...
Schoolgirl Heinkel has been performing before audiences since she was three. In home-town St. Louis, where her father sells plumbing fixtures, a TV station manager spotted her playing Shirley Temple in a Christmas pageant, put her on a local kiddie show. She won modeling jobs, as well as roles in 13 St. Louis Municipal Opera productions. Chicago producers spotted her on a local TV show, were so impressed that they gave CBS brass in Manhattan a look at her over a closed-circuit broadcast. CBS whipped up a format, wooed Susan to Chicago's WBBM...
...above last season's. This year Italy expects 750,000 American visitors, 10% more than last year's record. To house them, 1,278 new hotels or pensions have opened in the past year, and airports and railroad stations throughout the peninsula will list every local hotel on an electric board (red lights for a full house, green lights for vacancies). For motorists, the Italian Auto Club has opened 16 autostelli motels ($6 a night...
...communities are getting into the act. In Bridgeport, Conn. 311 industrial plants are cooperating in studying present and future personnel needs, while at Waterville, Me., a town survey turned up worker shortages in 47 classifications, led to 600 adults enrolling in job-training courses conducted by Colby College and local schools...
...Warner Bros., producer of The Spirit of St. Louis (TIME, March 4), had reason to wonder if the epic's hero, Charles A. Lindbergh, is still a hero in his own home town. After big hoopla in Little Falls, Minn. (pop. 6,717), Spirit, showing in two local theaters, grossed a miserable $7.50 in one house on the second night of its run. Warner Bros.' take for the evening...