Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Naturally enough, the 3-ft. genius' favorite painter is Picasso, but his father tries to keep him away from museums ("I don't want him to be influenced"). At school the boy is not considered much of a painter, though he has won local renown as a poet with such lines as these...
...string section. It was the same with the wise old woodwinds and the boastful brasses. After a frustrating hour, Conductor Weissmann felt like flying back to the peace of his Scranton (Pa.) Philharmonic. But when the Old Timers Orchestra of New York's American Federation of Musicians, Local 802, begged him to come for just one more rehearsal, he had to admit "I fell in love with them...
...admiration was understandable. Inquiring around in Local 802, 66-year-old Cellist Abram Goutkin had found an orchestra-full of retired symphony musicians who had yielded their chairs to younger men but were by no means ready to quit playing. Onetime New York Symphony First Trumpeter Vincent C. Buono, 74, and such 78-year-old gaffers as Violinist Fred Schaefer and Violist Solomon Pressman were enthusiastic about Gout-kin's idea of forming an old fellows' outfit. Sixty others were rounded up in no time...
Pointing out the high cost involved in running a residential college, the President declared that the most economical education is that given "locally in a local community...
Henry Foster, playing his second game for the Crimson this year, won the only game for the local crew, defeating Albert Vanderhoof in three straight games...