Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...restaurants were always popular meeting places. At the Bow St. restaurant professors and students lined up along his banquet table to drink the first pre-cooled beer in Cambridge. Following Prohibition. Cronin was the first local bartender to get a license to sell beer...
...Yardlings meanwhile remained undefeated after two weekend victories over local freshman teams. Tufts fell, 77 to 60, on Saturday, while B.C. lost its second game to the Crimson freshmen this year, 72 to 63, last night...
...caught an odd, steel-blue fish off East London. The fish had large blue eyes, teeth like a cat, and four clumsy fins that looked a bit like legs. It lived for three hours, oozed oil from under its scales, bit the captain, and was taken ashore, where a local naturalist recognized it as a coelacanth (pronounced see-la-kanth), a fish which zoologists had believed extinct for at least 50 million years. Coelacanths appeared 300 million years ago and were much like the primitive, sea-keeping ancestors of all land vertebrates, including...
...engineer. But Affandi had other ideas. In elementary school, he discovered that he could get a grade of nine out of ten in art class, made up his mind to be an artist, and for 20 years struggled for recognition. To eat, he taught school, collected tickets at a local movie house, tried house painting, saving the leftover paint for his canvases...
...settling the yearlong American Federation of Musicians' strike against the recordmakers; as boss of Columbia Records, Inc., he was in the midst of the battle with RCA over long-playing records. In 1949, he moved on to Mutual Broadcasting System. As president, he spruced up management, found new local sponsors, and perked up programing. By last May, when his three-year contract with Mutual (at $100,000 a year) expired, the network's billings were $3,000,000 a year bigger, and White moved over to NBC as a vice president...