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...Zulus at New Orleans' Mardi Gras. Buttoned into an outlandish red velvet tunic, and brandishing a silver scepter and a fat black cigar, Satchmo began his triumphal tour at 9 in the morning. Rumbled gravel-voiced Louis as he settled himself on the throne on his gilded float: "Man, this is rich." The parade stopped before the Gertrude Geddes Willis Funeral Home, and the royal party dismounted for a light lunch of turkey and ham sandwiches, pickles, olives and champagne. By the time Satch had clambered back on to the float and settled down with three bottles of champagne...
Pressure Group. In Crisfield, Md., as A. Wellington Tawes, speaking in the high school auditorium, finished making a motion to float a $1,500,000 bond issue for school repairs, the ceiling in the next room fell down, and the audience unanimously seconded Tawes's motion...
...alleged fair name of Harvard. It consists of a quarter acre of MUD, oozing mud, rutted mud, sodden hub-cap-deep mud. It is pitted with chuck holes and topped off by a thirty by ten foot lake of uncertain depth. On the surface of "Lake Perkins" float pieces of old lumber, clothing, garbage, and sundry other debris. A student auto bearing a Massachusetts license plate was recently mired in the middle of Lake Perkins for two weeks, blocking off the rest of the lot since a voyage across this atrocity is necessary...
...Dealer. Banker Shields, who had brought in the new board, was neither an aircraft maker nor, until recently, a stockholder of Curtiss-Wright. But he had other qualifications; as senior partner of Manhattan's Shields & Co., he had helped float some of the biggest U.S. industrial issues and had played a hand in some other big reorganizations, such as the New York Stock Exchange in 1938. Now, as chairman of Curtiss-Wright's executive committee, Shields's next job will be to help President Jordan lure new aircraft designers and production men to Curtiss-Wright to step...
Such stunts may seem far-fetched to local spectators, but it's all part of the game in the far west, where rallies are often marked by monster bonfires, float parades, and all freshman men wearing pajamas. Stanford rooting sections are always solid white blocks, and very often some red marking outlines...