Word: charlestoned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gracious Charleston, the still midsummer air was broken by the sound of two Southern gentlemen campaigning. Just before South Carolina's Democratic primary, 4,000 voters had crowded into a ball park to boo or cheer the two voices bursting out of the loudspeakers...
...been Governor Thurmond," said the deep voice, "I would never have appointed the Nigger physician of Charleston, Dr. T. C. McFall, to displace your beloved white physician [on the Medical Advisory Board]." At that point, sounds of dissent rose from 400 Negroes in the bleachers. Johnston bellowed: "Make those Niggers keep quiet...
...Negroes, who had little to choose between the Senate candidates, were more interested in something that had not happened since Reconstruction days. A Negro, Alfred J. Clement Jr., was running against five-term Congressman L. Mendel Rivers in South Carolina's First District (Charleston). Clement, an official of the respected, Negro-owned North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Co., had spoken from the same platform as white candidates, had been refused permission only once. When election day came, of course, he wouldn't have a chance. But still...
Cinemactress Joan Crawford, 42, who started out as a Chicago nightclub dancer even before the days of the Charleston, struck a pose for what she figured might be her 8,000th piece of cheesecake art. It had long since become a routine with her, she explained: "I just pull in my tummy, throw out my chest...
...sheds a nostalgic tear for the decade of the big binge. From the false Armistice of 1918 to Black Thursday of 1929, this well-edited paste-up of old newsreels recalls the fevers and foibles of the generation that lived on Florida booms, hip flasks, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the Charleston, and the out-of-sight spiral of a rocketing stock market. Its faces range from the ludicrous (Calvin Coolidge in an Indian war bonnet) to the complacent (Jimmy Walker in a ticker-tape parade) to the evil (the pudgy, bland-eyed look of a paretic Al Capone...