Word: charlestoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grimness not always to be seen in big league baseball. They were entries in the annual American Legion baseball championships. Last week the best four teams (from Trenton, Cincinnati, New Orleans and Los Angeles), toting their favorite bats and solemnly oiling up their mitts, journeyed by day-coach to Charleston, S.C. for the American Legion's tenth annual Little World Series...
Married. George Vanderbilt, 31, multimillionaire sportsman, explorer, big-game hunter, ex-PT boat commander; and Anita Zabala Howard, 41; both for the second time; at Arcadia, the Vanderbilt plantation in Charleston...
...smash hit of the season, grossing 210,000 francs ($1,763) a performance-a terrific take for present-day Paris. Entire families, from grand' mère down to ten-year-old Gabrielle, were trooping to see the show. They were seeing a spirited, shined-up Nanette. The Charleston-mad flapper of the '20s had become a Gallic jitterbug. In an atmosphere of glittering color and gorgeous chorines, Nanette (Claudine Cereda) writhed to boogie-woogie arrangements of Vincent Youmans' (see MILESTONES) I Want to Be Happy and crooned...
When a Negro boy in Charleston, S.C. was bitten, the doctors began running through the usual drugs. But 45 minutes after the injection of calcium gluconate, the boy still cried out with pain. After another shot he seemed to get worse. A slow injection of salt and sugar was no help; pentobarbital sodium, codeine and Aspirin left him still twitching on the bed. Pentobarbital sodium was tried again, to no effect...
Three O'Clock Dinner, Josephine Pinckney's smart, brittle, readable novel about life and love in Charleston, S.C., loped off to what the New York Times termed "a nice start"-600,000 advance copies as Literary Guild choice for October. It also won $175,000 from MGM. Probable star: Lana Turner...