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...Despite rising prices and chilly weather, New Orleans boasted of the largest, gayest Mardi Gras since its beginning in 1827. Forty-three balls were scheduled. Thirteen parades tootled through flag-festooned streets. As far away as Biloxi, Miss, hotels were chock full, and private rooms in town were bringing...
...North Atlantic is chock-full of weather and crisscrossed by weather-sensitive airplanes, but islands for weathermen to perch on are few and far between. Last week, in London, the PICAO (Provisional International Civil Aviation Organization) decided to station 13 weather ships at places where islands ought to be. During the war, the U.S. and Britain kept 20 weather ships in operation. Now these have dwindled to four...
Back in pioneer Oregon of 1856-ah, those were the days!-life was chock-full of excitement: barroom brawling, gunplay, gold prospecting, gambling, whizzing tommyhawks and flaming arrows, sudden romance and sudden death. Canyon Passage has all this and more-plus better-than-average dialogue and competent players (Dana Andrews, Susan Hayward, Brian Donlevy, Britain's Patricia Roc). Gnome-faced Hoagy Carmichael wanders lazily through the busy plot, picking his mandolin and singing four catchy, near-frontier ballads that he composed for the occasion. Technicolor works pure magic with the ires, the fist fights, trie Redmen, the pretty girls...
...Otis & Co. ad offering a new bond issue. In the underwriting syndicate: Chock-Full O'Nuts, S. Klein, Good Humor, Inc., Army & Navy Stores, Inc., Diet Smith, B. O. Plenty, and Your Friendly Socony Dealer...
...United Nations" series was Paepcke's idea. The artists chosen to represent their native countries were, for the most part, commercial virgins. Although the only instructions given them were the dimensions of the ad, some of the first ads appeared chock-full of Container Corp. boxes. Paepcke added a second rule: no more boxes. Thus, many of the paintings in the show are as unrelated to Container Corp. as a Waugh seascape is to the Cunard Line...