Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week." An accomplished pianist, she joined the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, played plenty of tennis, even joined the chorus line at the university's spring carnival show. Somewhere along the way, she also found time to get engaged to Fred Sorenson, 29, the news director of the local TV station, WCIA...
Today, Larry Adler is a paid-up member of the Los Angeles local, and widely recognized as a harmonica virtuoso. But he has had his political troubles, stemming from his famous libel suit against Hester McCullough, who tried to have him barred from a Greenwich, Conn, concert hall because she said he was associated with too many Red-front organizations. The case ended in a hung jury, but ever since then, Adler has had difficulty getting engagements in the U.S. He went to live in London with his English wife and three children (who are U.S. citizens). The British love...
...next two weeks, it ran head-on into trouble. Many communities joined up reluctantly, some flatly refused. They had given generously to last winter's drive, which raised $55 million, and community leaders feared that the new campaign would interfere with upcoming charity appeals, especially their local community chests...
...Angeles, the Social Service Commission at first denied permission for the drive, then sheepishly reversed itself as the local polio epidemic worsened (see below...
...Montgomery, Ala., civic officials refused permission for the drive, also pointed to a merciful decline in the local polio rate as compared with last year's severe epidemic...