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...hundred years ago as a railroad terminal, it soon grew until four important lines crossed there. Its commercial activity had few attractions to Southerners who were trained to the slower pace of plantations, while its pushing, aggressive, competitive life made it distasteful to the leisured aristocrats of Savannah or Charleston. But as an island of industrialism in the drowsy sea of Southern society, Atlanta attracted dissatisfied spirits who were fed up with the old order and wanted change even before the Civil War, became a vast manufacturing centre on which the whole South depended when the War finally broke...
...Frances Everett Fletcher, widow of Lucian Fletcher, died, aged 87. She was survived by one daughter in Cincinnati, two daughters in Charleston, three great-granddaughters in Latonia, Ky., all the descendants of Lucian Fletcher of Lynchburg and all pure white. In 1932 in Chicago died Maria Fletcher Turner, Lucian Fletcher's chocolate-colored daughter by the late slave Mary. Of all his progeny, it turned out that Maria had done the best for herself in the way of worldly goods. She had married an enterprising blackamoor named Sheadrick B. Turner who had represented Chicago's Black Belt...
...book-length biography of Gorrie has ever been written. His story was told last week in Scientific Monthly by Professor George Byron Roth of George Washington University. Born in Charleston, S. C. in 1803, John Gorrie studied medicine in the North - exactly where, no one knows. He began practice in the seaport of Apalachicola, Fla., took such an interest in municipal affairs that he became postmaster, city treasurer, city councillor, mayor. Fever descended on Apalachicola every summer and Dr. Gorrie found it impossible to treat his patients in the hot weather. The earnest young physician thought the best thing...
First significant stop of the Presidential special was at Charleston, S.C. There shortly after midnight, General Johnson Hagood, recently ousted from his Texas command because he spoke of WPA "stage money" (TIME, March 9), boarded the train by previous invitation from the President. Next afternoon they conferred. After a two-hour session, the President announced that General Hagood would have a three-month leave of absence. Meanwhile in Washington Major General Frank Parker was ordered to Texas to take over General Hagood's old command...
Vaudeville dancing led George White into producing tabloid revues. In 1919, with dark and lovely Dancer Ann Pennington for his star, White put on his first Scandals. Successive reincarnations have produced such national dance steps as the Charleston (1926) and Black Bottom (1927), such tunes as The Birth of the Blues (1926) and That's Why Darkies Were Born...