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...when confronted with the voter-registration-test question, "Will you give aid and comfort to the enemies of the U.S. or the government of Alabama?", wrote in reply: "If hurt would give comfort only if wonded." The man passed with flying colors. On public accommodations, Humphrey reported that in Charleston, S.C., there were ten hotels and motels that welcomed dogs, none that would take a Negro. As for job opportunities, Humphrey cited a Bureau of Census study that showed that a Negro college graduate during his lifetime would earn less than one-half as much as his white counterpart, some...
...little over a century ago, as the South Carolina convention was meeting in Charleston to vote for secession, James Louis Petigru, a native Charlestonian, was stopped by an out-of-owner who asked the way to the city insane asylum. "I don't know which insane asylum you're looking for," Petigru replied and, pointing to the building in which the convention was meeting, continued, "but the one with the most lunatics is right over there...
...Charleston, S.C., the News & Courier, swallowing its disappointment over its idol Barry Goldwater's indifferent showing, found room to rejoice, after a fashion, over the emergence of Lodge. Said that paper, in what was surely the weirdest political forecast of the year: "The size of Mr. Lodge's write-in vote, compared to the Democratic write-in for Robert F. Kennedy, suggests to us a Johnson-Lodge combination...
From Manhattan's Masie Cox, 18, to Washington D.C.'s Nikia Clark, 18, the presentation of 50 girls at the silk-bedecked International Debutante Ball took a full hour before things finally settled down to dancing (the twist was Out, the charleston In). But no one seemed to mind as the girls from 12 foreign lands and 13 American states put on their own beauty contest-each lass escorted by assigned service-academy cadets and personally chosen Ivy League types. Everybody's favorite foreign find was Scotland's bonnie Marney Jane Bulman, 19, and domestically...
Behind the statistics are people such as Jo Ellen Flagg, 26, daughter of a domestic in Charleston, W. Va., who went to West Virginia Wesleyan ('58) on a family income of $1,090. She majored in library science, got a B average, earned a master's at Western Reserve, and is the science librarian of Oberlin College. Ragan A. Henry, 29, son of a Kentucky carpenter's helper, came from a family with an income of $3,000. He won $4,600 in scholarships at Harvard, graduated magna cum laude ('56), went on to Harvard...