Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...sooner had the President announced his support of Korea than a Dallas citizen was on the telephone, calling his local newspaper. Where was Korea, anyway? Were the people Indians or Japanese? And what time was it there...
...Chicago, the Giants of the Negro American League announced that they were signing on a new outfielder and new pitcher recruited from a local high school. Both were white teenagers, the first in the league's 17-year history. Said League President J. B. Martin: "These boys were taken on their merits as ballplayers...
What Houghton does provide is a library of more than 6,000 recordings, produced at Muzak's own $1,000,000 plant in Elizabethtown, Ky. With these, Muzak maps out for its local "franchisers" complete daily, weekly and monthly programs tailored to the needs of individual customers...
...Next Voice You Hear (MGM) belongs to God, broadcasting on the radio (all networks and local stations) to an errant world. The Voice's effect on an average U.S. family makes an inspirational little fable, shrewdly manipulated to warm moviegoers' hearts. Almost sure to receive both cheers and sneers, the picture fully merits neither. Simpleminded, ploddingly earnest, sometimes awkward and dull, it is less intriguing than its idea. Yet it is also more wary of the subject's pitfalls than might be expected...
...local newspaper editor (Macdonald Carey), a newcomer seeking an ivory tower after a stormy career as a foreign correspondent, is reluctant to mix in political controversy. But as his conscience is needled by a reporter (Gail Russell) for a Mexican-American weekly, he saves the youth's life during a manhunt, begins to crusade for him, and narrowly averts a lynching at the town jail...