Word: savannah
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...booming, trading, railroading Atlanta, the War Between the States was a cosmic incident but not the end of the world. Savannah and Decatur (doomed to be a mere suburb), Macon and Augusta might mourn the life that was gone; Atlanta had business to do: rebuilding, shipping to and from the whole southeastern U. S., as John Calhoun had foretold, growing to 22,000 by 1870, 89,872 by 1900. Georgians who were not Atlantans had a saying: "If the folks in Atlanta could suck as hard as they can blow, they would suck the ocean up to their city limits...
...mentioning the performance itself, of course, remarks might be passed on about the remarkable costuming, about the Savannah heat-wave, Rose Brown, whose Kaisha was vaguely reminiscent of Josephine Baker, but it's all quite futile. The show belongs to the great Bojangles. The rest of the cast can only be thankful that they have a chance to do something in the first act, for when Robinson comes on in the second, he takes over and all the rest of the cast can do is sit back and shrug. It would be nice to bounce one's grand-children...
...jovial Alexander Brook, 41, took the news of his prize calmly. He has been giving shows, winning medals, selling pictures to museums for 17 years. For even longer he has been married to sharp-nosed, sharp-witted Caricaturist Peggy Bacon. Artist Brook painted Georgia Jungle on a trip to Savannah last winter, finished it in three or four days. At Los Angeles, where he is teaching at the Otis Art Institute, Painter Brook told an interviewer last week: "To me it was a sad scene, and I guess I like sad things. . . . What does anyone do with...
...Like Kosciuszko, Polish adjutant to General Washington who fought devoutly for an alien cause, Pulaski fought as a Brigadier-General in the American Revolution. He was killed at Savannah in 1779, and is memorialized by a fine equestrian statue in bronze in Washington and by a titanic $21,000,000 elevated highway over the filthy flats of New Jersey...
...Savannah, Ga., Negro Charlie Williams, listed by the Tuskegee Institute as a lynching victim, was found working in a fertilizer factory. Said he: "I heard I was lynched but didn't pay any attention...