Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the higher-flying Democrats politicked at a national level last week, local leaders attending the Chicago convention were also busy with their own problems. A TIME correspondent, prowling a hotel lobby, overheard this conversation between Baltimore's broad and boisterous Mayor Tommy D'Alesandro and another Maryland delegate. Subject: Millard Tydings, hand-picked last spring to battle Republican John Marshall Butler for his old Senate seat, since hospitalized with a serious attack of shingles...
...Sunday Sam Young-Harry, 27, newscaster son of a Nigerian tribal chief (and producer of a local version of Twenty Questions in Lagos) rapped the record spinners for "insulting the audience's intelligence. They are just a prostitution of radio. One in Omaha would frequently play a few bars from a Beethoven symphony, then break it off with 'We're not interested in Beethoven's greatest, but only in Como's latest...
...Unemployment has dropped; what unemployment there is today is specially or locally caused and requires special or local remedy...
...grandstand. "Kids, kids, kids!'' he would cry. "Big kids, little kids, bring your dimes and nickels! Get your ice cream here!" He pushed the hot dogs ("See how long they are!-30? to the foot, 90? to the yard!"), kept up a steady stream of jingles ("Local bread, pound of meat,/And all the mustard you can eat"), in every way seemed to be just one more concessionaire. But to carnival folk, Witold Krassowski, 35, is now known as "The Professor." A sociologist who teaches and studies at the University of California at Los Angeles in the winter...
What sort of people become carnies? Usually, says Krassowski, carnies are the children or the relatives of carnies. Others achieve the status by accident. In one town a local carpenter challenged a sideshow wrestler to a bout; when he won, he decided to join the carnival for good. In another town a local auto mechanic was called in to help fix a Ferris wheel, and just never left. A college zoologist worked at a carnival one summer, resigned his job at the college, now runs a snake show. A California social worker is now reading palms in a "mitt camp...