Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Rozella heard that some of the local American Legionnaires were muttering about her crusade, she buttonholed a Legion official and said: "I'm going to make a decent guy out of you if it takes all next year...
...touch with the killer's father, W. E. Cook of Joplin, Mo., and asked for permission to claim the body-a wealthy Comanche man, he explained blithely, wanted to pay for the funeral as a memorial for a wayward son. Cook agreed. Then Undertaker Boydstun told the local newspapers to stand by, took off for California in his hearse, claimed Billy, performed a quick embalming job, brought the body back to Comanche, dressed it in a neat blue pinstripe suit with black necktie, and put it on display...
...well at the top level, should be extended to the grass roots. He told the assembly: "We've been concerned here with the overhead of cooperation. We've been on dress parade . . . I am concerned in bringing the services of the council into closer relationship with the local community . . . This overhead fellowship is delightful and enriching, but there should be elimination of the sense of futility that grows out of the overlapping and duplication of denominational programs on the local parish level...
...Body. With Charles Laughton again directing and with another name cast-Judith Anderson, Raymond Massey, Tyrone Power-the production opened in California in November, plans to get to Broadway in February. Meanwhile, it is playing one-night stands throughout the U.S. to the tune of such critical cries from local critics as "thrilling," "stirring...
...wonder boy of journalism. Only 29, Editor Smith soon cured the ailing Chronicle, broadened its horizon to include columns heavy with culture, foreign news and features. He picked up new readers steadily, experimented with such ideas as departmentalizing the news, developed a staff studded with columnists and breezy local writers. During World War II, he resigned from the Navy, after serving as a lieutenant commander, to enlist as a private in the Marines, did combat duty in the Pacific and came out a lieutenant. Then he went back into the Navy on active duty as a full commander...