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Just 45 miles from Fort Sumter, where the Civil War began on April 12, 1861, clergy and lay delegates from the Charleston, S.C., area assembled last week in the small, red-carpeted sanctuary of Bethel Presbyterian Church in Walterboro. The issue under consideration there and at similar gatherings across the South: whether to end the Presbyterians' own North-South schism, which dates from the Civil War. After an hour of genteel debate, the Walterboro meeting voted for reunion...
DIED. James Hubert ("Eubie") Blake, 100, durable ragtime composer and lyricist (Charleston Rag and I'm Just Wild About Harry); just five days after his centennial, following a bout of pneumonia; in Brooklyn. A onetime bordello pianist and a contemporary of Scott Joplin, Blake electrified Broadway in 1921 with his music for Shuffle Along. For the next 25 years the modest, unassuming composer enjoyed steady success before sliding into semiobscurity. His music was rediscovered in the '60s and eventually celebrated in such Broadway shows as 1979's Eubie...
...that the legal issue was closed. "In an appropriate case, he added, "we will not hesitate to again ask the Supreme Court to rule on this question, which is so important to millions of citizens." The Administration is currently trying to dismantle busing plans in East Baton Rouge, La., Charleston, S.C., Yonkers, N.Y. and Chicago...
...Cabinet officers. Something stirred inside George Washington during his third year, and he left Philadelphia for two months on a tour of the Southern states, meticulously noting the beautiful belles he encountered along the way ("about 70" in Newbern, "62" in Wilmington and "at least 400" in Charleston...
...will subject the candidates to extraordinary scrutiny. Thus it will be important for Alan Cranston not to appear as old as he is (68), Glenn to appear a little taller than he is (5 ft. 10½ in.) and Fritz Rollings not to seem as Southern as he is (Charleston, S.C.). More experts than just Scammon believe the world's longest political race may be won by the man who is best at poking fun at himself. "They've got to kid their own eagerness," says Humor Consultant Bob Orben, who wrote for Bob Hope and Jerry Ford...