Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...presence of female wolves." A.P. and U.P. filed their own "wolf boy" stories, though no one from the wire services had actually seen the wolf boy. Meanwhile, at the government hospital, the doctor-superintendent (and source of the stories) was reveling in the publicity. Amidst a swelling tide of local protest, the sick, deformed child was put in a ward where spectators saw an attendant on hand to poke him and make him howl and moan. Admission charge: 1 anna...
With that as a starter, Judge Härringer really got busy. He helped the boys turn an abandoned theater into a civic center, hired professional musicians to play for them, asked local authors to give talks on the world's great literature, brought in actors to put on comedy skits. The judge haunted welfare groups, asking them to help him rustle up food and clothing. "There's no question," said one official, "that Härringer is the most gifted beggar in town." Said the judge with a smile: "We have to do the giving before...
Each weekday, from early morning until sunset, television turns loose an avalanche of masculine charm that would overwhelm any audience less hardy than U.S. housewives. TV's charm boys range from such veteran network stars as Arthur Godfrey to such local Lotharios as The Continental, who lounges about in a silken robe, sipping champagne at midday, breathing love poems and casting hot-eyed glances calculated to burn right through TV screens...
...bossed Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers Union, expelled from the C.I.O. in 1950, is in a losing fight to hang on to its members. Following the lead of Butte miners, 230 members of a predominantly Negro local at Republic Steel's Edwards Mine in Alabama voted to quit the union; they want to join the catch-all District 50 of John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers...
Bottom Card. In Elkhart, Ind., George Lewis Jr., picked up in a raid on a local gaming house and taken to the police station, raised his $25 release bond by picking the pocket of a fellow gambler...