Word: localize
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...until early in the afternoon that Philip got the news (by telephone from a local newspaper) that changed their lives. He sent an equerry to call London for confirmation, then gently led his wife down to the river's edge and told her that her father was dead. The Queen returned to the lodge on her husband's arm, shaken but in full command of herself. All that afternoon, she kept busy supervising the myriad arrangements for the long trip home, penning formal regrets to the hosts she would have to disappoint, bidding goodbye and signing photographs...
...Sandringham, where local carpenters had spent the night making a simple coffin of oak cut from the forests nearby, Elizabeth greeted her mother and sister quietly, kissed her children and then went to the second-floor room where her father's body lay. At sundown,* a cortege of George's woodsmen and gamekeepers, headed by a kilted pipe-major playing a Scottish lament, wheeled the bier to the parish church, where the King's body lay in state for two days before being taken to London's 12th century Westminster Hall, adjoining the House of Commons...
...sales rocketed. The Los Angeles Times almost doubled its press run of 50,000, still came close to selling out. In Washington, dailies had an average gain of 10,000 readers apiece, and everywhere papers were grabbed up as soon as they hit the stands. Editors dug hard for local angles. The Atlanta Journal remembered that Golfer Bobby Jones had once played golf with the King, and interviewed him on the King's game. New York Daily News Columnist John O'Donnell, in a rare moment of benign relaxation, fondly recalled that the King was known...
...bullet zinged through a window of Dentist W. A. Fingal's house. About the same time, a dynamite bomb exploded in Negro Physician Urbane F. Bass's backyard. Another bomb was tossed in front of the tire shop belonging to Vice President Henry Dyson of the local chapter of the N.A.A.C.P...
...Local hockey hopes took a had jolt yesterday when doctors reported that sophomore center Dick Clasby had sustained a broken none and bruised chest in the Dartmouth game Wednesday, and would be sidelined indefinitely. The Crimson plays Army on West Point's Smith Rink at 2 p.m. today...