Word: smalltowner
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...already caused "a revolution." Said one: "One sure change will be the use of larger type. Let this machine be developed a little more, and the cost of starting a newspaper will be very little. Instead of $50,000 or $100,000 for linotype machines to start a smalltown paper, I'll bet you could start one for $10,000 with Vari-Type. And you could put out a damned good-looking paper." But it would not look so good to the I.T.U. This week, with 15 dailies struck in eight cities, the National Labor Relations Board was reported...
That Hagen Girl (Warner) begins as a sociological case history and ends as a soap opera. The case: a wealthy smalltown family smuggles daughter home from somewhere on a night train. The doctor comes and the windows to daughter's room are barred. The town correctly guesses that she is insane. The same train has also brought a middle-aged townswoman and a baby...
Cynthia (MGM) is a timid smalltown girl (Elizabeth Taylor) in distress. Born delicate, she is kept sickly by her own unhappiness, her frustrated, overanxious parents (George Murphy, Mary Astor) and her pompous doctor-uncle (Gene Lockhart), who bullies the whole family. Music (S. Z. Sakall) and Young Love (James Lydon) arouse in Cynthia a desire to live-and to live like other girls...
Most of Conrad Richter's story might have been written by Booth Tarkington. In a transparent and innocent style he tells of Lucy Markle, a beautiful smalltown girl at the turn of the century remembered "in an old yellow snapshot." Because she had remained faithful to her dead lover, people admired her, for death and dignity were taken seriously then...
...Being a radio man from beyond the banks of the Hudson, and therefore smalltown and unaccomplished to such an accomplished metropolitan engineer as your recording-perfectionist Mary Howard [TIME, Dec. 30], I am somewhat abashed to take issue with the great woman...