Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wright, in San Francisco, suggested a further breakdown: 1) the big, obvious news story, 2) the comprehensive situation story, with preparations made long in advance, 3) the local offbeat story which can grow out of a small newspaper squib, and 4) "the TIME type of exclusive, like a new business starting up, or a spectacular operation by a surgeon or troubles within some church parish . . . They are the news dividends of the week." Bill Johnson, in Dallas, checked back on his last 23 stories, found one originated with a press conference, one tip came from a press agent, seven from...
Next Tuesday, New Hampshire voters will gather for town meetings to decide local issues (e.g., should the old covered bridge over the Contoocook in the town of Boscawen be demolished?). Then, with the political eyes of the U.S. on them, they will step over to the polling booths to 1) select delegates to the national conventions, 2) cast their ballots for the man they prefer for President. By next morning the first real straws will be eddying in the 1952 political wind...
...quiet press conference on Capitol Hill, Georgia's Senator Richard Brevard Russell announced that he is a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination. Said he: "I am a Jeffersonian Democrat who believes in the greatest practicable degree of local self-government." Would he support Harry Truman if the President is nominated? "I shall not answer that until he is and I see the platform," said straightforward Dick Russell. "... I have never been one of those men who say vote the Democratic ticket even if it destroys my country...
...semi-scrub teams looked better than some of the college aggregations that have performed at the Arena this year," Will Cloney, local sports columnist, said this morning in reference to Wednesday night's All-Star House hockey game. Cloney has seen all the Arena games...
...youth at present are under too great a degree of uncertainty," he said in a campaign speech here before a luncheon gathering of the local Kiwanis Club. "Such a plan would enable them to plan their lives better...