Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Downs. But the thriving Journal never grudges the time and expense needed to get the news, e.g., 30 reporters were assigned to this week's Page One leader on the steel shortage. The Journal's biggest local staff (about 90 newsmen) is still in Manhattan, but some 160 staffers work out of bureaus in 17 other U.S. and Canadian cities, bringing the Journal a lot closer to Main than Wall Street. Says President Kilgore: "If we ever get rid of the ups and downs of business, it will be because people now are reading much more about...
Somehow the emotion spread to people elsewhere who care about music. Local newspapers were disappointed that Queen Elizabeth, Greta Garbo and Aly Khan were not on hand, but they took comfort from the presence of Secretary of State Dulles, Composer Dmitry Shostakovich, Conductor Bruno Walter, .Industrialists Henry Ford II and Harvey S. Firestone Jr. Above all. the city which can name no less than 28 houses in which Beethoven lived, gloried in the opening-night work: Fidelio, Beethoven's only opera, which had had its premiere exactly 150 years before-in occupied Vienna (at that time the occupying armies...
...resort, he joined up with a vocal quintet that played second-class movie and burlesque houses. To supplement their meager take, the members sometimes rented advertising space on the backs of their costumes; at the end of the act the quintet would about-face and reveal plugs for a local line of baby clothes or strawberry...
Doctor's Orders. In Nashville, asked by the judge why he passed three bad checks in a local store, W. P. Rowland explained that he had been bothered by a back ailment, was restricted to light work...
...shots were fired into the ground by patrolman George E. Mercier, stationed on the Radcliffe campus. Shortly after he had halted the students three squard cars arrived, one of them summoned by complaints of local residents, and the other two by Mercier...