Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wenner-Gren's associates prudently hired an obeah (Bahamian voodoo) ghost (?10 from a local ghost renter) to assure success at the opening. As any obeah-minded Bahamian could have predicted, this precaution worked; the ghost, one Richard Crotch in life, worked silently and invisibly to bring the necessary luck. Such corporeal visitors as Prince and Princess Alexis Obolensky, Mrs. Winston Guest, Sir Victor Sassoon, Mrs. Bernard Gimbel and Metropolitan Opera Tenor Jussi Bjoerling materialized from amphibians that made 40 nights in and out. Other guests, before and since: Danny Kaye, the Countess of Leicester, Brenda Frazier Kelly...
...Genoa, where separate editions are put out. Its staff of eight editors, 115 reporters and rewritemen and eight foreign correspondents is supplemented by 2,875 party members, who act as part-time volunteer correspondents, in almost every town in Italy. L'Unità prints 27 subeditions with local news for every region where it is sold. Thus, unlike other Communist papers in the West (e.g., Manhattan's amateurish Daily Worker, San Francisco's People's World), L'Unità works hard to cover the news...
...take a beating, and Broadway seem a little backward. The Golden Apple transports the Trojan War set, with considerable irreverence, to the U.S. around 1900-specifically, to a small town near Mt. Olympus, Wash. "Roughly the first half acts out the Iliad: Helen (Kay Ballard), the wife of a local dignitary, runs off with a drummer named Paris (Jonathan Lucas) and after a lot of commotion comes home to hubby. The second half acts out the Odyssey: Ulysses, a Spanish-American war veteran, imbibes city life at a neighboring seaport, goes to a water front dive, meets a Circe from...
Themselves dealing with a patchwork of old legends, Latouche and Moross have yet contrived something attractively individual. The Golden Apple is much less satire meant to strike home than a front-porch-and-parlor version of Homer. The local Venus wins the golden apple in a pie-baking contest. The face that launched a thousand ships now sets perhaps a thousand tongues awagging. Scylla and Charybdis are a slick pair of brokers. The famed vanished song the sirens sang turns out to have...
...plants-other companies also do that-but that Harvester has carried a clear-cut policy of nondiscrimination into the South itself. Partly because of Jo Anderson and partly because Harvester has found that Negro workers in general are just as good as white, it declined to conform to the local policy of discrimination when it opened plants after World War II in Memphis and Louisville, and the results, said the Urban League, are an object lesson for U.S. industry...