Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next question was what damage, if any, had been done to her brain. Nurse Timke had been scheduled for a minor operation on her nose, to relieve sinusitis, when she passed out cold because she was supersensitive to a local anesthetic (butacaine). It had taken 4½ minutes to open her diaphragm and begin heart massage. Afterward, the doctors could find no organic damage from oxygen starvation, but when Darline Timke first regained consciousness, she had slipped back through two years of her life. It was 1949 to her. and she was a senior at Downers Grove high school...
Cott was in charge of programing for Manhattan's independent WNEW when NBC hired him away in 1950. "WNBC," he says, "was suffering from malnutrition of excitement. They wanted me to make it a truly local station." In this respect, the new manager is a notable success. Local sponsors have increased steadily; so has the local listener-rating since Cott introduced such events as club newsbroad-casts ("The Bronx Chapter of Hadassah will meet Monday night") and other "public service" shows...
...Vegas as the discontented wife of Vincent Price, a near-bankrupt broker who hopes to remake his fortune at the dice tables. To Jane, the visit is one long remembrance of things past, for it was in Las Vegas that she loved and left Victor Mature, a local policeman. In their big confrontation scene, Jane delicately dilates her nostrils and Victor clenches his jaw so hard that his ears wiggle, thus making it clear to the dullest moviegoer that this is an incendiary passion...
Bureaucracy's Hand. In Utrecht, The Netherlands, Paul Verra got a $1.60 fine or a day in jail for living with his wife at her father's house without prior approval of the local housing authority...
Cambridge Chief of Police Patrick F. Ready said last night that the local force would soon begin a crackdown on the sale of bottled liquor to minors...