Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bronte announced to a cheering throng that he was parceling out 4,500 acres of Bronte to 650 peasant families on easy-to-pay-installment plans or cheap 99-year leases. The Archbishop of Catania came down to give the church's blessing to the transfer. The local carabinieri staged a joyful military drill. The viscount, a tall, blue-eyed man of 41, happily signed the necessary papers. "This is a reward for the honest and solid work of those who for years have given their best," he said. "Simply an act of humanity...
...father died, New Publisher William Randolph Hearst Jr. has started a quiet revolution in the Hearst publishing empire. "I don't want to rap the Old Man," said one Chicago Herald-American newsman last week, "but this is a young, vigorous organization now. We've changed. Local editors can put out their own papers now without waiting to hear from headquarters...
...couldn't possibly have done it without taking it down to San Simeon a couple of times for Mr. Hearst to tear it to pieces and rearrange." The Detroit Times, which seldom ran anything but canned editorials, now regularly runs two or three editorials a day on local subjects...
Proving Ground. Bill Hearst's home paper, the New York Journal-American, is a testing ground for the changes. Its front-page and inside make-up is being transformed and its editorials have taken a sharp turn toward more temperate writing, more attention to local issues. But nowhere is the new broom more evident than in the American Weekly, Sunday magazine supplement for the chain. As a result of an overhauling that has been in the works for eight months, the weekly has been completely revamped and modernized (TIME...
...family in Miami, where he went into the export-import business. Desi, who was 16, enrolled in St. Patrick's High School (his closest friend was Al Capone's son Albert), and got a part-time job cleaning canary cages for a firm which sold birds to local drugstores. He soon found steadier work as a guitarist in a four-piece band incongruously called the Siboney Sextette. The critics agreed on Desi's meager musical gifts. "He was always off-beat," says Theater Owner Carlos Montalban. "But he's an awfully nice guy-a clean...