Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Asbestos Millionaire Tommy Manville decided that his 28-room mansion in New Rochelle, N.Y., which his last eight wives called home, was too large for temporary bachelor living. He bought a full-page ad in the local paper to announce,"The House of Brides for Sale," and made plans to move into a cozier $125,000 ranch-type house on a nearby peninsula...
...city searching for TV sets that could pick up Milwaukee's station WTMJ-TV. They left home because none of Chicago's four TV stations were carrying the middleweight championship fight between Sugar Ray Robinson and Rocky Graziano at the Chicago Stadium; the promoters had barred the local stations to ensure a good crowd...
...first showed his debunking talents in his 1946 book, The Natural History of Nonsense, which shied irreverent rocks at some of mankind's most venerable myths. Before Down You Go, Evans made trial TV runs on several local shows, recalls that one of them was so bad it was watched "only by members of my immediate family." But last week he realized that his adenoidal high-pitched voice has finally become recognized as a TV asset: he was asked by an adman to do the commercials on another show...
...Vatican has long conceded that the popular printing press can outrun any censor's pencil. Since 1900 the church has banned only 255 books, most of them theological works. (Best-known contemporaries on the Index: Philosopher Benedetto Croce, Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre.) Responsibility has been shifted to local bishops and, in the last analysis, to the individual to decide whether a particular book can injure the reader's faith. Explains a Vatican book censor: "People have different spiritual allergies...
...Criticism of public officials, he held, is not only a newspaper's right but its duty. He acquitted Managing Editor Kenneth Dixon and four other members of the Lake Charles American Press of criminal charges that their crusade last spring against wide open gambling had defamed the local sheriff, district attorney and three gamblers (TIME, Sept...