Word: charlestoned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gives it to the saxes, and features a socking four-beat rhythm (often whacked out on a cowbell). Said one Boston onlooker: "It's more graceful than jitterbugging, but it's less inhibited. It can be adapted to any style. It's greater than the Charleston, greater than swing...
...highest percentage of centenarians is in parts of the country where the stress and strain of living are supposed to be greatest," e.g., along the Eastern seaboard from Boston to Charleston and along the Mississippi, and not in such havens for the aging as California or Florida...
...Negroes (40% of the total population) have an average family income of $1,849 a year, and are regular buyers of everything from baby food to electric refrigerators. To help tap this market, some Southerners have begun employing Negro salesmen, e.g., a Negro hired by a Packard dealer in Charleston,. S.C. sold two new and three used cars in his first 15 days. The month before, the entire staff had sold Negroes only four used cars...
...took over Washington's Griffith Stadium for the ceremony, for which 20,000 people paid from 90¢ to $2.50. The big spectacle included $5,000 worth of fireworks displays of a duck laying eggs, a naval battle, and of Sister Rosetta herself. The Superfelds, whose bookings now range from Charleston, S.C. to Pittsburgh, also have sponsored more conventional types of entertainment, e.g., Guy Lombardo, Billy Eckstine, George Shearing, and such road-show stage favorites as Don Juan in Hell, The Caine Mutiny Court Martial and John Brown's Body...
British Ballerina Moira (The Red Shoes) Shearer had her picture snapped in London as she practiced the Charleston for a film called The Man Who Loved Redheads, in which red-haired Moira plays four roles...