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...Well-meaning members of St. Michael's Church in Charleston, S.C. invited Rabbi Lewis A. Weintraub to speak on the Palestine question, then served him a pork dinner. The Rabbi pointedly passed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Jan. 19, 1948 | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

...Leventhal is living alone in his Manhattan apartment while his wife helps her mother move to Charleston. In the barbaric heat of late August he is beset by a nearly forgotten old acquaintance, Kirby Allbee. Down & out, dirty, half drunk, Allbee turns up to jeer at Asa, "discussing" with him a guilt that is both preposterous and somehow plausible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Suffering for Nothing | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

Three hundred and seven years ago last October 7 the General Court of Massachusetts Bay Colony turned the Boston-Charleston Ferry over to Harvard. This was the first grant to an endowment fund which is worth just short of $200 millions today. Although most of the 1800 separate funds that make up the endowment are larger and more significant than the two which stem from the 1640 ferry concession, none are more novel, and the growth of the first concession to its current value of $18,000 stands as a miniature example of the rabbit-like multiplication of Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brass Tacks | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

Married. J. Strom Thurmond, 45, balding bachelor Governor of South Carolina; and Jean Crouch, 21, his ex-secretary (whom he crowned Miss South Carolina at the Charleston Azalea Festival last April); each for the first time; at the Governor's mansion in Columbia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 17, 1947 | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

...Light-Fingered. In Gooding, Idaho, someone stole off with a 20-ton steel bridge. In Del Mar, Calif., somebody made away with J. E. Moreno's brick wall. In Charleston, W.Va., Mrs. E. C. Leonard lost her handbag to an autoist who grabbed it as he tore past. In Uniontown, Pa., a strange dog snatched Dora Bookchin's purse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 3, 1947 | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

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