Word: atlantae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opening of the Atlanta Symphony's 13th season last week, the women of the Symphony Guild promised everyone champagne punch at intermission, and apologized for serving it in paper cups. The New York Philharmonic, whose far less serene opening had come two days late because of a musicians' strike for more pay, last week featured gifted young (27) Thomas Schippers conducting Cherubini and Prokofiev symphonies. The Kansas City Philharmonic, lucky to make its 25th season despite a big deficit, was out to win new fans by playing in movie houses, churches, synagogues and high-school auditoriums (one concert...
...rock 'n' roll popularity. From staid Boston, WBZ's Bill Marlowe states flatly that "Rock 'n' roll has had it. The teen-agers are beginning to look to better music." But in Los Angeles the craze is just as strong as ever, and in Atlanta, jukebox operators and record shop proprietors say that rock 'n' roll is still by far the most popular music...
...violence in Little Rock. Almost single-handed he had created the reality of violence from its myth. After withdrawing his National Guard, he had taken off for the Southern Governors' Conference at Sea Island, Ga., stopping on the way to see the Georgia-Texas football game at Atlanta. ("He's really lapping up the glory," said one of his fellow governors. "There were 33,000 people at the game, and every time they cheered a play, Faubus stood up and bowed.") The next night Faubus cavorted in the Silver Room of Sea Island's Cloister Hotel, signing...
...into a rest home named Carmel Hall. In Dallas, eight blocks from the center of town, the 126-room Ambassador Hotel has become a residential hotel for the aged (part of a six-state, 13-hotel chain for old people). One of the specifications of a projected home in Atlanta is that it be readily accessible to downtown shops, services and entertainment. The new installations are part of a major, countrywide trend in geriatrics: putting the aged downtown near the bright lights...
North Carolina, representing a significant integration breakthrough in the Solid South, was obviously a key state. While stringers covered Charlotte and Greensboro, Atlanta Bureau Chief Harry Johnston flew to Winston-Salem with responsibility for reporting statewide developments...