Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brimstone & Hysteria. There was plenty to reform. The hill people are fond of a local liquor that approaches 200-proof, and their disregard for God's commandment against adultery makes Hollywood seem puritanical. Incest is common. "I know dozens of cousins who are living together," Jessie Hyde said recently. "I know men who stay with their aunts and girls who stay with their uncles...
...paper grew to 7,576, not far behind its afternoon rival, the 28-year-old Ironton Tribune (circ. 9,280). But Publisher Sexton proved to be an erratic newswoman. She ran through a series of editors, handed down unpredictable edicts that made the Courier an erratic paper, e.g., no local news on Page One in the first edition, and nothing but local news on Page One in the last edition...
...months ago, the Courier had a local story that really rated Page One play in every edition. Understandably, Fronia Sexton passed it up and let the rival Tribune get a clean beat. The story: bank examiners found a shortage of $114,000 in the funds of Publisher Sexton's own Citizens National Bank. The deficit, said the examiners, had been used to cover Fronia Sexton's checks, and had not been deducted from her account. Mrs. Sexton admitted that she had ordered the "overdrafts." used largely to finance the Courier. She promptly resigned as president of the bank...
...Money. Nordine keeps his programs simple because he has no time to rehearse. Each week he records commercials for more than a dozen radio and TV sponsors, acts on soap operas, announces local shows, narrates for Chicago's growing TV film industry...
Health officials asked local TV and radio stations for help. Hourly appeals were broadcast, asking wedding guests to report for examination. Many of the guests had left town: some were as far away as Hawaii. By last week the number of typhoid victims had climbed to ten. One of them, eleven-year-old Tim Nahm, had died. Of the 300-odd guests only 231 were accounted...