Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sentence. Neighbors in Northlake, including Chief Heck, pledged their homes to raise Raboski's $15,000 bail, drafted a clemency appeal to California's Governor Earl Warren. "We plan to do everything we can to stand back of him," said the Rev. Milan Swasko, pastor of the local Lutheran church. "This community can't afford to lose...
...advertise the sale, auctioned off the first and last cars and two others. Among the other salesmen: ex-Governor James McCord, an auctioneer by profession. Because the carnival spirit of the sale made for free spending, Clement and his friends knocked the cars down at bids well above local retail prices for comparable used cars. Average for the 44 cars, one to seven years old: $1,065. After the sale an out-of-town dealer, who had gone to Nashville expecting to pick up bargains, grumbled: "I didn't make a single bid. Bidding started off at prices...
Moscow, Idaho is a pleasant, placid town in the middle of rolling, prospering farmland. There are 14 churches and a red brick railroad depot in Moscow, and the four-story Elk's Club is the tallest building in town. Local products are dried peas (nearly all the world's supply is produced in the area) and students (nearly a third of the town's 10,593 residents are students at the University of Idaho). Nobody really knows how Moscow got its name (it was possibly a gesture of sympathy toward Russia during the Crimean War), and hardly...
...word story on Presidentelect Eisenhower's secret trip to Korea. Correspondent Whitehead, one of the six newsmen to accompany Ike, and a previous Pulitzer winner for his reporting of the Korean war in 1951, has been an A.P. staffer for the last 18 years. If For local reporting under deadline pressure, the Providence (R.I.) Journal and Evening Bulletin, for coverage of the chase and capture of a bank robber. The city desk picked up the $51,000 robbery on the police radio, dispatched its own two-way radio cars to follow the robber and police. The minute-by-minute...
...local reporting, where time was not a factor and the "resourcefulness" of the reporter led to "constructive results," New York World-Telegram and Sun Reporter Edward J. Mowery, 47. Mowery's dogged work to free an ex-dime store clerk named Louis Hoffner, who had been unjustly sentenced to life imprisonment on a murder conviction, won Hoffner a complete pardon (TIME...