Word: charlestoned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tuxedo, and Bess, resplendent in black velvet, had the time of their lives at a fund-raising show for the newly revived U.S.O. at Constitution Hall. Onstage, Cabinet officers, military brass, Congressmen and local society bigwigs wisecracked, caterwauled, sawed away on their fiddles, square-danced, and performed a frantic Charleston, complete with short skirts and rolled stockings...
...nation's power. BRUCE K. BROWN, 52, president of Pan-Am Southern Corp. (oil distribution), and veteran of World War II's Petroleum McMANUS Administration for War, to be oil boss. CHARLES W. CONNOR, 67, in charge of coal-mining operations for Armco Steel Corp. at Charleston, W.Va., to be solid fuels administrator (e.g., coal...
Western Michigan (Grand Rapids): Lee M. Hutchins '46, 38 Oakes Street S.W., Grand Rapids: West Virginia: Frank R. Lyon Jr. '36, 1601 Kanawha Valley Building, Charleston, West Virginina; Worcester: December 28, Charles A. Hill '39, 93 Grant Street...
...Simple Charleston. When he is not dancing, or groaning in a hoarse baritone, he circuit-rides the tables diagnosing customers' needs. Says Bruno: "The aristocracy lives in the nostalgic past; I give them nostalgic songs ... and for that they love my music. If I hear people speaking a foreign language, I always include songs from their countries." Aristocrats and foreigners alike seem to enjoy one of his prescriptions: his dance arrangements of familiar arias from Italian operas. So far he has turned bits from The Barber of Seville, Rigoletto and Trovatore into sambas; one of his biggest hits...
...current enthusiasms, which he was teaching to dignified Florentines last week: a revival of the Charleston. Says Bruno: "The Charleston has a simple rhythm which Italians like...