Word: charleston
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Charleston News & Courier: "The singular fact of the present day is that Americans, most of them, do not recognize that their country...
...problem business methods could solve. When he first circularized schools in 1938, he got just one client: Manlius School in New York State. Manlius sent Tuition Plan 20 contracts within ten days. The 100-odd institutions which now use the Plan include such prep schools as Ashley Hall in Charleston, S.C., Friends' Select (Quaker) School in Philadelphia, Riverdale Country School in New York, St. John's Military Academy in Delafield...
Last week, this toughest of take-off troubles happened to a Pennsylvania Central Airlines pilot as he left the hill-bordered Charleston (W.Va.) field, headed for Pittsburgh with six passengers, copilot and stewardess aboard. Pilot Russell Wright had lifted his 10-passenger Boeing 2470 no more than 10 feet off the ground when his starboard motor quit cold. He was past the point where he could plump down on the airport; he had to go on. Quickly he feathered the prop on the dead engine, thus killed its racking rotation, ruinous drag. Co-pilot William Riley snapped up the landing...
Married. Mme. Frances Alda Gatti-Casazza, 55, oldtime opera singer, former wife of the Metropolitan Opera's late manager, Giulio Gatti-Casazza; and Ray Vir Den, 45, Manhattan advertising executive, and something of a singer himself; in Charleston, S.C. Chuckled the bridegroom, vice president of the famed Dutch Treat Club: "I hope I surprised the boys...
...newsman who first wrote that big, bronzed Stirling Hayden, with his head of unkempt, golden hair, "ought to be in the movies." For months afterward hard-boiled sailors would shout at him across the water: "Yoo hoo! You ought to be in the movies!" When Hayden lost Aldebaran in Charleston, his friend Larry O'Toole, a Boston artist and member of the crew, remembered the newsman, looked him up, through him got in touch with a Hollywood agent. The agent took some photographs of Hayden to Paramount and showed them to Edward Griffith, who was at that moment looking...