Word: charlestoning
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...carpetbagger reference was unfortunate-for Johnston. Kimbel, who was born in New York City, is public relations director for the Myrtle Beach, S.C. division of a Massachusetts corporation; he has helped to bring other industries into the state. Said the Charleston News & Courier: "'Carpetbagger' carries a meaning of hatred left over from Reconstruction when Northern villains picked the bones of the defeated Confederacy...
British Ballerina Moira (The Red Shoes) Shearer had her picture snapped in London as she practiced the Charleston for a film called The Man Who Loved Redheads, in which red-haired Moira plays four roles...
...first stop was Charleston, W.Va., where, on a cold, wet night, he drew a good crowd of 2,800 to an auditorium that had seats for 3,517. Next stop was Canton. Ohio, where he drew 4,000 to an auditorium built for 6,000-competing with bad weather and a championship high-school basketball game. From there he went on to Mt. Clemens, Mich., then to a jampacked, impassioned session with 1,000 of his fellow Wisconsinites in Madison's Eagles Hall. Sample McCarthy extravagance: "The Democratic label is now the property of men who have been unwilling...
Until his staff tipped him off last week, Superintendent Roman Haremski of the Illinois State Child Welfare Division had thought the subject was closed. On two occasions, Miss Ruth Schmalhausen, supervisor of home management studies at Eastern Illinois Stat College in Charleston, had asked him to find her a real live baby for her home economics majors to care for; but each time, appalled at the idea, Haremski had said no. Now it turned out that Miss Schmalhausen had been able to find a baby on her own. By last week psychologists and educators all over the state were furiously...
Pilot Leo Burr Clark, an Air Force lieutenant from Charleston, S.C., banked steeply to the left, thus saving many paratroopers ahead. As bodies banged against the plane-one smashed into a propeller, one was almost decapitated by the wing, one broke the glass of Clark's windshield with a great crash-he did not forget the jumpers hooked up to the static lines in the fuselage. He set off the emergency bell, warning them of imminent danger, both the pilot and the copilot, Lieut. Stanley Robert McCaig of Tieton, Wash., were still in their seats when the plane...