Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coffee & Cake. Recovery, Inc. (a nonprofit organization in which members are nevertheless encouraged to make "freewill offerings") somewhat resembles Alcoholics Anonymous, but instead of keeping members off the bottle, it keeps them listening to Low. The patient joins a local Recovery chapter, meets at least once a week with fellow members to exchange symptoms over coffee and cake. He is assigned the telephone number of a cured "senior" to call when in trouble. Dr. Low treats members through lectures, reinforced by Recovery's 400-page bible, Mental Health Through Will-Training (5,000 copies sold to date), a newsletter...
titles. He has been acclaimed Golfer of the Year twice; he has picked up titles in Panama, South Africa, Brazil and Argentina. He has played for bus fare in local Chamber of Commerce matches and for five figures in the big, well-promoted, postwar tournaments (e.g., the Tarn O'Shanter, the Palm Beach Round Robin...
...school he was something of a dude, and a natural standout in every sport he tried. In baseball he was an outstanding pitcher and outfielder, played against local coal miners' teams. In football he was a fast backfield star (a "scat back" according to Snead). He was on the track team and he boxed. He found little time for books...
Underneath his Li'l Abner façade, he is a shrewd businessman. His official tournament earnings over the years amount to $250,000. Local matches and exhibitions (at a flat fee of $1,250 per exhibition) have probably doubled his take...
Prescription. In St. Paul, state officials warned local citizens against the "tree surgeon" who charged fat fees for treating "sick"' trees with a mixture of aspirin and petroleum jelly...