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...Little Rock advance integration or retard it? "Little Rock," thought one Negro leader in border-state Missouri, "has put a great number of people, both white and Negro, to thinking. Many consciences have been affected by the sadness of the story, and these consciences will help crystallize action." A Charleston, S.C. moderate disagreed: "Those who believed that integration could be accomplished gradually and peacefully are now convinced that Eisenhower will have to use force all the way." Said a prominent Floridian: "We in the South were trying to decide how far we would go and how far the Federal Government...
...money helped him keep, including John W. ("Bet a Million") Gates and Diamond Jim Brady. Seeking an oasis of sanity more like the pastoral simplicity of his childhood, Baruch bought Hobcaw Barony, a historic, 17,000-acre parcel of land in his native South Carolina just north of Charleston. Hobcaw was nature's Xanadu, a game hunter's paradise especially famed for its massed armadas of ducks. Toward the end of his book, getting ahead of his story, Bernard Baruch tells with dramatic relish and glowing pride of F.D.R.'s month-long recuperative retreat at Hobcaw...
Salesman Current, appointed business manager, found a complete newspaper plant for sale at Charleston, W. Va. Able Editor Bob Barton, who had also quit the News, was lured back from the Cleveland Plain Dealer as the Citizen's editor; 76 other News staffers and 130 of 164 News carrier boys came to work for the new paper. "It's just like the News had picked up and moved," exulted one reporter. Salesmen signed up their old clients. Circulation men built an advance readership...
...codpieces out looking for something." Tanner's spiritual home (his father was formerly a broker on the Chicago Board of Trade) is really another decade. "I'm a pre-crash item. You know, those vulgar colored cars, baroque faucets and so on. And you should see my Charleston...
...Gigantic Fugue. Adopting evolution as his religion, Mondrian made a cult of the new, preferred man-made scenery to nature, turned his back on the Bois de Boulogne to avoid seeing the trees, furiously danced the Charleston (when The Netherlands banned it, he announced that he would never return home to Amsterdam). His ascetic dryness kept women at a distance. The only feminine touch in his studio was an artificial tulip, surrounded by leaves painted white...