Word: civically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Competing alone against two Scripps-Howard papers, the staid Times-Star resorted to promotion contests, bigger headlines and color pictures. The Post cannily counterattacked by becoming more conservative, toned down its headlines and crime coverage, concentrated more and more on worthy civic projects...
...years ago," recalls Queensland Symphony Conductor Rudolf Pekarek, "you had to beg people to come to concerts. Now they're always packed." Reason is that the Broadcasting Commission has trumpeted the cultural values of good music as a measure of a town's civic taste. In towns whose chief diversion formerly was hunting kangaroos and rabbits, overflow crowds climb nearby trees to listen through the open windows. Occasionally, aborigines show up and solemnly swig plonk (Australian slang for wine...
...Mill. This mill, also in Lebanon, is presumably another Goldfine property. In 1955, Textron Inc., then Mascoma's owner, served notice that it planned either to dismantle or sell Mascoma. Into the picture stepped Lebanon's First Selectman Joseph Perley, another Goldfine friend; Perley was a prime civic mover in reducing local taxes on Goldfine local properties, with the result that Lebandale Mills, listing assets of nearly $1,000,000, paid only $2,528 in town taxes last year. Perley said he knew of an Ohio textile firm that would buy Mascoma-although he declined to reveal...
Charles P. Whitlock, presently Senior Tutor of the Non-Resident Center in Dudley House, has been named by President Pusey Assistant to the President for Civic Affairs. He will "serve as a communications link between the University and the several communities in which its work goes on," Pusey noted...
...world like a banker doing his civic duty, Belgium's ex-King Leopold III, who was forced by Socialist pressure to abdicate seven years ago, nobly accepted tutoring in the use of an American-style voting machine at the Brussels Fair from U.S. Pavilion Guide Beverly Ann Bailey. After the lesson, Leopold thoughtfully selected Lincoln as favorite statesman, Edgar Allan Poe as favorite author, Louis Armstrong as favorite musician. Poll completed, he issued a safe royal comment: "Very interesting...