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...program together but how to hire a hall and scale seat prices, how to find a first cellist and how to wangle newspaper space. Helping small-town symphonies with such chores is the task of the 13-year-old American Symphony Orchestra League, Inc. (headquarters: Charleston, W. Va.). The league has been taking a hard look at the music business and in the process, it has uncovered a mass of hitherto uncharted specifics. Item: community orchestras lose about 35% of their subscribers a year, hence must continually make new contacts. Item: it takes an average of 20 contacts to sell...
ANNE SCANNELLY ABLE Charleston...
...call forth another in some reasonably harmonious order. One of the most important changes on the U.S. scene in September 1955, as the nation's children trooped back to school, was the astounding progress of racial desegregation. In Kansas City, Mo. and Oklahoma City, in Oak Ridge, and Charleston, W. Va., white and Negro children for the first time sat together in classrooms. This simple fact, part of a vast and complex social revolution, resulted from a legal victory: the U.S. Supreme Court's decisions of May 17, 1954 and May 31, 1955, holding segregated schools contrary...
Beyond the Dessert. In Charleston, W.Va., at the gala opening of Woodrum's Tearoom, the proprietors did some rapid table hopping after they discovered that matchbooks placed before each customer bore an advertisement for indigestion tablets...
...Along the twelve-mile ride from the Charleston airfield to the campus, the President stood in the back of an open convertible, waving his left, nonpitching arm to the South Carolinians who lined the route. He remarked to General Clark "This looks like campaign time...