Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Originator of the weekly lunchtime sessions is Bangor's mild-mannered School Superintendent Homer Hendricks, 40, a Methodist. After hearing a talk by a local Roman Catholic priest stressing the need for closer ties between Bangor's churches and its youngsters, Hendricks decided to fill the gap. With the support of local clergymen and parents, he made available each Tuesday a classroom for any minister who would spend the 45-minute lunch recess with pupils of his faith. Attendance is entirely voluntary. For the first sessions, held early last month, 100 pupils showed up, some with their Bibles...
Last week the local Christian Science reader, Mrs. Kenneth Overton, who had been holding lunchtime sessions with three pupils, notified Superintendent Hendricks that she was withdrawing from the program on advice from her church's headquarters in Boston. But Superintendent Hendricks and his friends in Bangor were undismayed. Says Hendricks: "We're not particularly concerned with the outside opposition . . . We're going right ahead...
...Buffalo, Researcher Albert Sindlinger rubbed salt in Hollywood's wounds by announcing that every 2% increase of TV ownership in a community causes a 1% drop in receipts at the local movie theaters...
...shlepping" (roaming the city and looting parked cars), or "window Bopping" (heaving a lead ball through shop windows and hooking merchandise with stiff wires), or summertime "radio fishing'' (prowling rooftops and reeling in radios from open windows by their antennas). they would swagger into one of the local Communist clubs. "We would listen to them spouting off all this stuff we didn't understand. We would sign petitions with phony names. Then all the listening and signing paid off when we took these Communist broads in the back room . . . They believed in free love. We didn...
...everything from Brahms to Morton Gould, interests all sorts of listeners. This season, for the first time, the orchestra's eight-concert subscription series was a complete sellout (2,600 subscribers), Katims also expanded a series of $1-admission concerts in the suburbs (where he sometimes gets a local businessman to take the baton for the concluding number), and so excited one old music lover that she offered a $150,000 apartment building toward a new hall. Next year's budget will be jumped from $160,000 to $215,000 (half again as many concerts, more big-name...