Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet Russia are racing to launch the first rocket missile into interplanetary space. But if the statesmen paid more attention to television, they would realize that space adventures are strictly for the birds. Even durable Captain Video has been downgraded to a supporting role in a local show called Wonderama, where he shares billing with a drawing teacher and a cooking instructor. The only planetary wanderer left on the network air is CBS's Captain Midnight, who last week, in the fashion of spacemen everywhere, was locked in combat with the inevitable mad scientist...
...Earp and CBS's Adventures of Robin Hood all stiffly announce that, while children are welcome, what they are really seeking is a grown-up audience. As for Hopalong Cassidy, the vanquished king of an earlier TV era, his noble-minded triumphs can now be glimpsed only on local shows. Says one adolescent firmly: "We've seen all his shows five or six times already. That's enough...
...Trouble with Harry (Paramount) is the usual trouble with corpses: people can't let dead enough alone. A little boy (Jerry Mathers), playing in the woods, sees Harry first and runs to tell his mother (Shirley MacLaine). A retired tugboat captain and local poacher (Edmund Gwenn), who has just sent three rounds after a rabbit, finds Harry lying there with a little round blood spot on his forehead. "Oh, my!" he exclaims, for it is not hunting season. He is about to dispose of the evidence when the village spinster (Mildred Natwick) strolls by and. noticing Harry...
Protective Coloring. In Tokyo, after a brief investigation, pol:ce felt that they had spotted the man behind a recent rash of wristwatch smuggling, arrested Noboru Higasa, chairman of a local crime-prevention society...
This particular contest is only one of a number which will be decided tomorrow as voters in the area join the rest of the country in electing many local officeholders...