Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Theatre, plainly showing this area's enthusiasm for the music of Handel, Bach, and their predecessors. In fact, this is the sixth Cambridge concert in about as many weeks wholly devoted to music composed before 1759. I sometimes wonder if some daring artist could be found to venture a local program including Schubert, Franck, or Dvorak...
...Honorable Harrie Brigham Chase, of the U.S. Court of Appeals, 2d circuit, assisted by Bailey Aldrich '28 and Benjamin Leven, local lawyers, will preside when the Casner Equity and Scott clubs meet December 11. These will argue the constitutionally of a federal wage earning...
Strange Coincidence. In early November Scofield got Crooner Arcesi booked into Las Vegas' Thunderbird nightclub. Under an assumed name, Scofield invited a local part-time I.N.S. correspondent to dinner at the club. By coincidence, U.P.'s Los Angeles Bureau Chief Bill Best was also in town, and Scofield invited him too. When Arcesi came on to sing his song, Model Ariel Edmundson sat at a front table by herself, decked out with clues from all over the U.S.-a swizzle stick from Manhattan's Stork Club, matches from Miami, a dress from San Francisco -but no mark...
Everything went off on schedule. Arcesi sang Lost in Your Love. At her ringside table, Model Edmundson stood up, and became rigid. A local doctor was called and gave his opinion that she was, indeed, in a hypnotic trance, and sent her to a hospital. That was enough for the wire-service men, who promptly filed their stories. For a day and a half, the entranced Ariel was hospitalized, unable to speak. Then a hypnotist, thoughtfully provided by Scofield, gave his prescription: bring on Crooner Arcesi again. It worked like a charm; at the sound of his voice, Ariel rose...
...Crusaders from Europe could never understand the old hands' tolerance of Oriental life and customs. Moslems got equal justice with Christians in the law courts of Outremer, and the practice of their religion was generally respected. When a Crusader recruit insulted a local Moslem ruler, who was visiting the castle of the Knights Templar in Jerusalem, one of the knights apologized to the sheik, pointing out that the man had just arrived from Europe and knew no better...