Word: charlestoning
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...blue chips. Last week, in one of the largest deals in the industry's 44-year history, Manhattan's Capital Cities Broadcasting Corp. paid $15 million to Detroit's Goodwill Stations for WJR Radio in Detroit (current value: $8,000,000) and WSAZ Radio-TV in Charleston-Huntington, W. Va. (value...
...someone else did the standing around. In 1960 he became the first major Democratic candidate to announce for the presidency, but disappointment still dogged Humphrey. He lost the primary in his neighboring state of Wisconsin to Kennedy, was trounced again in West Virginia. In a sorrowful scene in Charleston, Humphrey stepped before television cameras to announce that "I am no longer a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination." Folk Singer Jimmy Wofford twanged at his guitar, struck up a final woebegone chorus of "Vote for Hubert Humphrey, he's your man and mine . . ." Once more, tears came to Humphrey...
...Pivot." The battle lines for the Capes were sketched while George Washington was encamped in the Hudson Valley in even direr distress than at Valley Forge. Lord Cornwallis had taken Charleston and was moving up to fortify Yorktown...
DANCE CRAZE (Capitol) is a history seminar, with laconic directions on the jacket for twelve dances ranging from the waltz (played by Guy Lombardo) to the black bottom (Pee Wee Hunt), the calypso (Lord Flea), the tango (Nelson Riddle), and the creep (Stan Kenton). Giving instructions for the Charleston was too difficult and the jacket writer gave up, suggesting, Ask your mother...
...including one of the city's largest downtown cafeterias, opened their doors to Negroes. Kemmons Wilson, chairman of the Memphis-based Holiday Inns motel chain, noting that he had instructed his motels to obey the new law, said: "The alternative is eventually anarchy, chaos and destruction." And in Charleston, Columbia, Florence and Greenville, S.C., integration proceeded without major trouble. In Greenville, a young Negro was sipping tea in the Jack Tar Poinsett Hotel dining room when South Carolina's Democratic Senator Strom Thurmond, one of the rights bill's bitterest foes, walked in. Apparently unaware...