Word: claflin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...singled out after an FBI investigation of the case. Defense and prosecution testimony produced deeply conflicting versions of the violence. The disturbances were touched off by the refusal of a white bowling alley to admit Negroes. This led to demonstrations by students at South Carolina State College and adjacent Claflin College, both predominantly Negro institutions. Three nights of rioting, arson and sniping followed, and the National Guard was called in. On the fourth night, the shooting occurred...
...perfunctorily. Bob Bush acts and sings, mostly sings, the part of Sid with more ease than one has right to demand in a community not known for its male leads, particularly of the musical variety. Josh Rubins gets the requisite number of laughs as Hines. And Bea Paiper, Pren Claflin, Chris Arnold and Shannon Scarry are supporting players who actually lend support. Miss Scarry, bigger than life, lends some-what more support than the rest...
...Prentice Claflin, as the puckish lush Ivan the Knife, swaggers, slobbers, and leers risibly. Hotiana's Jo (Peter Gilbert) on the other hand maintains the stony-faced good humor of a vacuum cleaner salesman reciting the merits of a Hoover...
...expressions he used to convey dimwittedness. And how perfectly his baggy pants suited his clumsy movements. But Pym is indefatigable. At the end, when he confessed the skepticism he'd felt all along about Party success, benevolence toward his Leader radiated from his muddled face. His companion, Prentiss Claflin, wasn't as whole a man. Still, considering that he was on book for an ailing member of the cast, he donated funny bits. Francine Stone (Ann Gedge) was the only disappointment...
WILLIAM H. CLAFLIN...