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...years ago a small army of workmen moved in. They built a dam across the Santee. From the Santee they dug a canal, built another dam, a lock and a powerhouse, diverting some of he Santee's impounded waters into the Caller Cooper River, which empties into the sea at Charleston. (The Cooper, as every Charleston schoolboy knows, "joins the Ashley River at Charleston to form the Atlantic Ocean...
...dancers wear colorful costumes-silk shirts, dungarees and cowboy boots for boys; tight-bodiced, full-skirted dresses for girls. As caller, Dr. Shaw goads them on with cowboy verses...
...Lloyd ("Pappy") Shaw is superintendent of the famed, progressive Cheyenne Mountain public school (elementary and high-school grades) in suburban Colorado Springs, at the foot of Pike's Peak. He is better known as the leader ("caller") of a troupe of high-school square dancers who in the last few years have pranced from coast to coast. In their wake they left a host of square-dancing clubs and a boom in square-dance costume manufacturing...
Into the statistical name-calling phase last week moved the next big U.S. industrial shortage: power. Aluminum, steel, other metals, transportation had gone through that phase and come out with varying degrees of priorities. Now it was power's turn. Said Harold L. Ickes, public name-caller No. 1: "There is a power shortage now and a greater one in prospect...
...Specialist is young, handsome Lawrence Loy, a Kansan who has called dances since he was a boy, did the calls for Columbia's square-dance album. To back up Caller Loy, Columbia hired rangy, twinkling Carson Robison, a harmonica-burbling Kansas balladeer, no stranger to records and radio. Carson Robison's chief problem in making square-dance discs in the East was to find city fiddlers who could saw scratchy enough. He finally found them in Manhattan...