Word: charlestoned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Col. William Stewart Simkins, 86, of Austin, Tex., professor-emeritus of law at the University of Texas; in Austin. On the morning of April 12, 1861 so the story goes, a Confederate sentry on duty near Charleston Harbor fired an alarm signal which opened the bombardment of Fort Sumter. The sentry was William Stewart Simkins...
President Washington picked the site "upon a rising ground, affording a fine water prospect, with a view of the Capitol." James Hoban, an Irish architect residing in Charleston, S. C., won a $500 prize competition for the plans by copying the ducal home of Leinster near Dublin. Much of his design was lopped away for economy's sake. President Washington laid the cornerstone without ceremony...
...Author. Born and bred in Charleston, S. C., Author Heyward comes of a long line of planters, impoverished and stripped of their feudal rights after the Civil War. Evidence of his inborn understanding of the Negro was the novel Porgy. With the aid of his wife, a playwright by profession, the novel was dramatized and most successfully produced last year by the Theatre Guild...
...Significance. The story of two generations of Charleston "waterfront niggers" scheming and suffering to give the third generation a "chance" follows Mamba through naive cajoling relationship with "her white folks" follows Hagar through backsplitting labor in the phosphate mines; ends with Lissa scoring triumph at the opera. The long process is marked off by many a high moment of comedy, tragedy, melodrama. Mamba's "my white folks" play considerable part in the book, but are important and interesting only as protectors to Mamba's daughters. The story loses force by their presence, but is the more valuable as sociology...
...increasingly accessible. By rail, Jacksonville is only 25 hours from New York, 35 from Chicago, 36 from St. Louis. Miami is about eight hours further. A half-day nearer the North are Pinehurst, Camden, Asheville, Aiken, Augusta, where the Southeast begins. One can take ship from Boston to Charleston or from New York to Miami or Savannah. ¶ Southbound golfers often head for the places where their favorite professionals hold forth. At Pinehurst are Donald and Alec Ross; at Augusta, Dave and Alec Ogilvie; at Belleair, Alex Smith. Gene Sarazen is at New Port Ritchey, Fla. At Miami Beach...