Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nest Control. In Indramayu, Indonesia, town officials announced a new price for marriage licenses: 25 rat tails...
...gimmick in the current film is Black Rock itself, a town bearing little resemblance to the standard farmer-cowman battleground. Black Rock is unusually homogeneous, "consumed with apathy," until the appearance of the outsider threatens the power elite and probes the town's collective guilty conscience. The suspension of disbelief called for is somewhat greater than usual, owing to the improbable economic and social set-up of the town, population circa twelve, all of whom sport neuroses of one sort or other. One day's exposure to the hero is all the therapy they need to set them straight, however...
...Wallace, Mich. Lutheran minister, Carl Lindstrom aspired to be a concert pianist, gave that up as a boy when a dislocation permanently stiffened one arm. He left Beloit College for economic reasons, after one year, wandered through jobs on small-town papers to the Hartford Times in 1917 as a copyreader. A self-taught linguist, Lindstrom makes nightly entries in diaries in six languages, frequently translates news stories into Italian, French, German, Spanish or Swedish just for the exercise. He reads multilingually and voraciously-75 books a year. He takes pride in a connoisseur's cellar of fine wines...
...like a gossip column, it was actually an advertisement paid for by ten Seattle restaurants whose names Watson dropped among the items. Possibly because the column rested on that highly dubious journalistic base, Watson at times stretched a grin into a guffaw. "Three noted ex-cons are busy about town putting together a burglar-alarm system," he wrote one day in 1956. "The guy who installs it is an expert-served in three state prisons for a total of twelve years-for burglary...
Public service has long been a company religion, preached with such saccharine slogans as "Working Together to Bring People Together" and "Togetherness by Telephone." But A. T. & T. practices what it preaches. It holds "town meetings" to tell about the company, sends executives to visit stockholders, continually polls the public about its opinion of the telephone company. A quarterly report from the New England Tel. & Tel. Co. listed this three-month activity in "customer relations": 330 talks by company officials, 1,271 company films, 501 talks with films, 587 displays, 7,305 customer interviews, 167 lecture demonstrations, 54 exhibits...