Word: charlestoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leventhal is living alone in his Manhattan apartment while his wife helps her mother move to Charleston. In the barbaric heat of late August he is beset by a nearly forgotten old acquaintance, Kirby Allbee. Down & out, dirty, half drunk, Allbee turns up to jeer at Asa, "discussing" with him a guilt that is both preposterous and somehow plausible...
Married. J. Strom Thurmond, 45, balding bachelor Governor of South Carolina; and Jean Crouch, 21, his ex-secretary (whom he crowned Miss South Carolina at the Charleston Azalea Festival last April); each for the first time; at the Governor's mansion in Columbia...
...Light-Fingered. In Gooding, Idaho, someone stole off with a 20-ton steel bridge. In Del Mar, Calif., somebody made away with J. E. Moreno's brick wall. In Charleston, W.Va., Mrs. E. C. Leonard lost her handbag to an autoist who grabbed it as he tore past. In Uniontown, Pa., a strange dog snatched Dora Bookchin's purse...
...Chicago, a stray horse turned up at the Municipal Airport, galloped gaily around the runways and brought air traffic to a halt for half an hour. In Charleston, W.Va., Frank Isaacs landed his seaplane on the Kanawha River, got run over by a steamboat...
...Michael's Church Charleston...