Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Chinese side is Father Herman, who was born in France but looks like a Chinese in his black silk robes and white beard cut Mandarin-fashion. A Roman Catholic missionary, he runs a school, orphanage, convent and dispensary in a little village about 2½ miles from Tonghing. The local Communist authorities recently requisitioned Father Herman's chairs, tables and beds for troops arriving from the north. When
Father Herman asked permission to visit Moncay. the Communists objected, but the local population is strong for him, and the Communists yielded...
...boosters, Newsday's department heads decided to put one out "as a public service." Hathway "got the staff out of the bars and grills, the restaurants and the movies." By 11 p.m. the mechanical staff was in and 32 editorial men were working on one of the biggest local stories in Newsday's ten-year history. By 6 a.m. a 16-page extra was ready to go to press with long lists of the dead and injured plus 25 stories and pages of pictures. Within a few hours, all of the 100,000 home subscribers had their extra...
Rosenfield's reviews, written with the raciness of a sportwriter's or pressagent's copy (both of which he once turned out), are backed by generally good judgment, but there are exceptions. After a local performance of George Sessions Perry's play, My Granny Van, Rosenfield told a friend of Perry's: "Remind George that I haven't forgotten that he misspelled my name" in a book Perry wrote on Texas. The next day Rosy wrote a stinging review of the play...
...cover City Hall. It's a Ku Klux Klan administration and we are an anti-Klan paper. Now do you want it?" Rosenfield said yes, made good at the job and later got the chance to be amusements editor. When one of his first reviews praised a local production of Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie, Publisher George Bannerman Dealey called him on the carpet for saying nice things of a play about a prostitute. Rosenfield convinced Dealey that he had a right to express his own opinion and has had a free hand ever since...