Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sorcerer & Apprentice. There is no precedent for failure in Charles Erwin Wilson's career. Born in Minerva, Ohio, where his father, Thomas Wilson, was principal of the local public school, Erwin Wilson (as his friends called him) had a traditional boyhood: the swimming hole, a pony, stolen rides on railroad handcars, improvised shows in a neighbor's barn (with Erwin Wilson as the magician). The Wilson family moved to Pittsburgh in 1904. At Pittsburgh's Bellevue High and later at Carnegie Tech, Erwin was a fair to middling athlete (basketball and football), and a bright and dogged...
...worried parents scouted around, found that the grownups of Eldora, Wapello, Clinton, Columbus Junction and other Iowa towns had met the menace by offering an annual community-sponsored all-night fling. Last week Creston tried the same remedy. Druggist Rex L. Mitchell sparked the party, got 33 local organizations to cooperate. The junior and senior classes approved the plans, added stipulations: 1) no teachers allowed after the prom, 2) other adults could serve food and drive the cars but were in no way to act like chaperons. The kids picked a name for the fling: "Crestubilee," for "Creston Student Jubilee...
...local music promoter weighed Szabo's audience appeal, and decided that there might be a market for the Szabo voice. He dreamed up a new record label (Hammerlock), and recorded Szabo in two appropriate songs: Take Me in Your Arms and It's All in the Game. To the accompaniment of gypsy strings, Sandor exudes Danubian charm...
Sharpest debate of the session came over a proposal to raise $8,000,000 in 20 months for the construction of 300 new churches by 1956. Chief questions: 1) Could local churches stand their shares of the strain? 2) Once they were built, would the new churches be sure to stay in the denomination, or would they drift away from total-immersion baptism into open membership, or become "community" churches? The fund was voted, after delegates were assured, by an amendment, that the new congregations will be "definitely related to the American Baptist Convention...
...Cambridge Quartet, a vocal ensemble, brought the local concert season to a close last Tuesday with a program of unfamiliar music by well known composers as well as some often-heard works given new vitality by authentic and highly sensitive performances. French chansons by Lassus and Debussy provided some striking and not dissimilar harmonic colorings; and two selections by Ravel displayed a sophisticated yet exuberant treatment of folk-like parables...