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...major reason for the Southern students' failure to conform to a certain image lies in the fact that they actually represent a vast divergence of background. Historic sea ports like Charleston and New Orleans resemble Boston or a West Coast port; inland cities like Chattanooga or Atlanta are primarily industrial, farming, and rail centers...

Author: By A Southerner, | Title: 'Not Our Kind of People' | 9/30/1958 | See Source »

...Buren's second year of court-ordered integration. They expected little if any trouble. Last year even Governor Faubus boasted in his progressive moments about how successful integration had been in other places than Little Rock Central High School. Arkansas communities integrated last year: Fort Smith. Fayetteville, Bentonville, Charleston, Hoxie, Ozark. Hot Springs, Van Buren. But this year the Negroes were welcomed back to Van Buren High by a band of 40 to 50 white boys, mostly duck-tailed types, jeering, catcalling, howling, holding up placards that read: NIGGERS GO HOME! CHICKEN WHITES go TO SCHOOL WITH JIGS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hoodlums in Arkansas | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

...Feel Good." The new Lions International president elected this week: Dry Goods Retailer Dudley L. Simms, 49, of Charleston, W. Va., who is also an active Mason, Shriner and Elk. West Virginia's Governor Cecil H. Underwood came up to watch the inauguration. Simms now starts twelve months of world travel, much of it north and south of the borders. For the first time ever, West European Lions were thick enough to get a man on the vice-presidency ladder: Per Stahl, 42. knifemaker from Eskilstuna, Sweden, who will, in the normal order of Lion growth, become president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ORGANIZATIONS: Roar, Lion, Roar | 7/21/1958 | See Source »

...bunch of second-division tabby cats, General Manager Jack McHale did the obvious thing: he fired Jack Tighe, his genial field manager ("Jack tried to be all things to all men"), replaced him with an unknown named Henry Willis Patrick ("Bill") Norman, manager of Detroit's Charleston (W. Va.) farm club, who will be expected to twist the Tigers' tail. The Tigers responded by taking six of the next seven games, including four from the New York Yankees, ¶Not even the obstacle of a stalled motorboat could stay the veteran, power-stroking Yale crew from sweeping through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Jun. 23, 1958 | 6/23/1958 | See Source »

Later, concertmaster Alfred Krips with a '33 banner as a shawl and a boater on his head, did an impromptu Charleston while playing with the orchestra, Hay-man's "Dancing Through the Years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fiedler's Gaiety Leads Program At Boston Pops | 6/10/1958 | See Source »

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