Word: charlestoning
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...mellow atmosphere of the Algonquin, where he promptly established himself in a suite, hefty Ben Bodne, 43, brought a new and different tone. As a small businessman in Charleston, S.C., and onetime head of a firm dealing in home bottling supplies, he had had a run-in with federal authorities during Prohibition. Result: a $25 fine for violating the dry law. Next Bodne tried the coal business, then he started wholesaling oil. He cut no fancy figure; in Charleston he was regarded as very small potatoes. But Bodne hinted that he had made a killing in war contracts, claimed that...
...dead dictator's luxurious train rolled from Berlin across the old, beaten land. In Hitler's bed slept James F. Byrnes, of Charleston, S.C. His advisor, Benjamin V. Cohen of Muncie, Ind., slept in Göring's bed, restlessly. The train rolled into Stuttgart's bomb-wrecked station and Byrnes got off to ride behind an escort of screeching U.S. Army jeeps to the Staatstheater. There, watched by U.S. generals and diplomats, German functionaries and civilians, Russian and other newspapermen, Byrnes delivered the speech which Europe and Asia recognized as America's boldest move...
...grimness not always to be seen in big league baseball. They were entries in the annual American Legion baseball championships. Last week the best four teams (from Trenton, Cincinnati, New Orleans and Los Angeles), toting their favorite bats and solemnly oiling up their mitts, journeyed by day-coach to Charleston, S.C. for the American Legion's tenth annual Little World Series...
Married. George Vanderbilt, 31, multimillionaire sportsman, explorer, big-game hunter, ex-PT boat commander; and Anita Zabala Howard, 41; both for the second time; at Arcadia, the Vanderbilt plantation in Charleston...
...smash hit of the season, grossing 210,000 francs ($1,763) a performance-a terrific take for present-day Paris. Entire families, from grand' mère down to ten-year-old Gabrielle, were trooping to see the show. They were seeing a spirited, shined-up Nanette. The Charleston-mad flapper of the '20s had become a Gallic jitterbug. In an atmosphere of glittering color and gorgeous chorines, Nanette (Claudine Cereda) writhed to boogie-woogie arrangements of Vincent Youmans' (see MILESTONES) I Want to Be Happy and crooned...