Oskaloosa News Recap For January 27th, 2021
Local News
Pizza Hut has a new Detroit-style pizza.
The eatery announced Tuesday that the nationwide rollout of the new ‘za was created in response to “the growing popularity of this pizza style across the country and requests from customers.”
The thick-crust offering is currently available at participating Pizza Hut locations nationwide.
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Twitter has unveiled a new “community-driven approach” to help combat misleading information on its site.
Birdwatch a pilot program that launched Monday allows users to add notes to tweets they believe are false in an attempt to “add context” for other users.
Jimmie Rogers, a sweet-voiced singer who scaled the music charts in the 1950s and ’60s before his career was disrupted by a head injury, died Monday in Palm Desert, Calif. He was 87.
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Just to live in New England in winter is a full-time job; you don’t have to ‘do’ anything. The idle pursuit of making-a-living is pushed to one side, where it belongs, in favor of living itself, a task of such immediacy, variety, beauty, and excitement that one is powerless to resist its wild embrace.” E.B. White,
A Report in January, 1958
Sadly, the weather that Mr. White described in his essay hasn’t materialized around these parts this winter. We had a couple batches of snow early in the season, but since then there hasn’t been much at all, certainly nothing you could describe as “wild.”
How would you like to be invited to a party at Adlai Stevensonâs house, with such fellow guests as John McCloy, Archibald MacLeish, Aaron Copeland and Lauren Bacall?
Itâs easy. All you have to do is get yourself a banjo and start practicing up on folk songs.
Well, itâs not really all that easy. Youâve got to nip around the world, spreading good will for the U.S.A., and singing in 27 languages. It also helps to catch dysentery, worms and a touch of hepatitis.
A man who chose this long and devious route to get invited to a party is Bill Crofut, young, upcoming folk-singer who has been visiting in Pittsfield over the holidays. Heâs the brother of Mrs. William A. Whittlesey III of 380 Holmes Road. Crofut comes from Cleveland, Ohio, where his father is president of a medical supply company. Young Crofut started veering away from medical supplies while a student at Putney School in Vermont, where he studied the French horn with a view to becoming a music teacher