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...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...
This second annual sophomore-junior dance will also boast a speakeasy to make the barmaids feel at home, a tinttype photographer, a magician, Jeanne Dinsmore '52 teaching the Charleston, the Harvardians and the Dunster Dances...
...days later, Charleston County detectives picked up two sullen, slack-jawed young ex-convicts named LeRoy Parker and James Lawing in a highway diner near Charleston. It took an all-white jury only 4½ hours to find both guilty of murder. Because the jury recommended mercy, the convicts were sentenced to life imprisonment...
...Drumbeats" somewhere accumulated itself a fine Charleston team, complete with rolled stockings and short skirts-it borrowed Kerry Lyne and Nick Benton from the Hasty Pudding Show for "When You and I Grew Up," a catalogue of the 'twenties. It got Cynthia Sweeney to sing "Sheboygan," and a chorus which looked at least more interested than most choruses manage...
Program plans for the interim vaudeville session call for a "Park Avenue Fantasy," by the Radcliffe Dance Group, a Charleston number by Jesnno Dinsmore '52 and partner, and a tap routine by Barbara Higgins '51 and Anne Cary...