Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John Gurwell, publisher of Houston's suburban Bellaire Texan and River Oaks Times (combined circ. 6,958), says that weeklies "are giving back the home town" to suburbanites who have lost contact with community responsibilities...
Even outside metropolitan areas, most small-town weeklies, from the Reedsport, Ore. Port Umpqua Courier (circ. 1,620) to the Lexington Park (Md.) Enterprise (circ. 2,356), have thrown out the smudgy type and bumpkin prose that once characterized the weekly press, now run staff-written stories and editorials instead of the boilerplate and canned sermons that once crammed country papers. The old-time jack-of-all-trades country editor has been largely supplanted by trained staffs. Lured out of the cities by the prospect of editorial and economic independence, trained newsmen in increasing numbers are bringing professional standards...
...most recent serious work. Serenade for Violin Solo, String Orchestra and Percussion, the Bernstein song ? immensely more mature now ? has been transferred to the violin; it is a highly impressive piece, his best so far, in Bernstein's estimation. Still remembered is his brilliant musical, On the Town (1944), in which he fairly knocked the eyebrows off the highbrows by his combi nation of popular style and serious technique. Earlier attempts notwithstanding, Bernstein was the first to synthesize serious music and jazz with real ease...
...town has laid out a new residential district for 6,000 future houses, boasts a new highway to Parkersburg 30 miles away, has a new $350,000 elementary school, which Kaiser is building and is to be leased to the county for $1 a year. Telephone service has been vastly improved with 200 miles of new lines; city gas lines have been extended. Ravenswood's bank has added more than $1,000,000 in new assets in two years, and the local loan association has financed 200 new houses since 1955, figures to finance many hundreds more. About the only...
Vitelloni. One of the best of the Italian-made movies-a biting but not bitter satire of small-town life (TIME...