Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...noisy enough. When a Hazard voter suggested some songs, Happy was agreeable. "You git us a git-tar," he said, "and we'll have a singing today." A past master at gladhanding. Chandler greeted all constituents as "Brother," or "Honey," glibly filled in the proper names as his local frontmen supplied them: "Good to shake your hand, Mrs. Lewis. You know my daughter married a Lewis, honey. Say hello to Mr. Lewis for me." Whenever possible, he applied the personal touch: a fervent handclasp, an embrace, a clutched arm, a kiss...
...discuss the issue. As Stenhouse listened, 38 of his neighbors spoke varying opinions. "Let's rise on our hind legs and throw him out!" cried one. "Our American schools must be kept free of even a suspicion that they may be guided along Communistic lines," said a local veterans' leader...
Both papers covered national and international news with the same sharp eye that they kept for local stories, laid away the myth of isolationism in the Midwest, even though Robert McCormick endlessly affirmed it. From their able, highly paid staffs, both got the kind of intense loyalty that only grows out of respect...
Publisher Newhouse expects to increase the editorial budget, give his editors a free rein to expand and improve the news coverage, and thus hopes to close the circulation gap on the Post-Dispatch. For Newhouse, the independence of his local editors is the keystone of his publishing theory. He has no use for chain operations that make papers look alike or speak with a common editorial voice. Says he: "Nobody knows better what to print in a local paper than the editors on the spot. The ideal chain is one in which there is no chaining whatsoever...
...arrived from Yugoslavia in 1951. The Orthodox Christian daughter of a Belgrade accountant, Oriah had been expelled by Tito's government for anti-Communist activities, had found Israel the only country ready to give her an immigration visa. But when Oriah and Moshe decided to marry, the local rabbi told them that Israeli law forbids Jews to marry Christians. The only way out was for Oriah to become a Jew, or for Barak to become a Christian-purely "as a matter of form." The young couple refused to start their marriage with "an act of deceit...