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...Memphis newspapers proudly pointed out, the biggest celebration in the Carnival's 75-year history. Warmed with blended bourbon, many a Memphian decided that in this year of peace & plenty it was even better than New Orleans' historic Mardi gras. Despite occasional rain, the city echoed to the sound of countless parades; of parties and balls at which Carnival satraps made glittering entrances. The Cotton King and his Queen were regal with crowns, scepters, robes and brocades. Memphis' secret organizations (Osiris, Ra-Met, Scarabs, Sphinx, etc.) had princes & princesses of their own, dressed them almost as brightly...
...Gundel's Restaurant in Budapest's Town Park an American could eat a black-market meal of pate de foie gras, venison, wine, salad, and dessert for $1.66. The same meal would cost a dollarless Hungarian six times the best monthly salary any Hungarian could earn today. Hungarians got five ounces of bread daily. City-dwellers jammed trains to scour the countryside for food. . . . In Italy, where one of Europe's lowest bread rations was about to be cut again, Premier Alcide de Gaspari warned: "We are on the eve" of starvation...
York Times, cabled home a hot discovery from "Somewhere in the South of France" -a discovery "not quite equal to that of the atomic bomb, yet [of] special significance for all civilized humanity. . . ." His discovery: "just about the best restaurant in a muddled world." He excitedly reported "a foie gras such as I have not tasted since Hitler attacked Poland, an omelette Perigoitrdine not to be found anywhere else in Europe, a brochette de rognons that would knock Monsieur Brillat-Sava-rin's eye out. . . ." He kept the location secret, said he, because "officially speaking, it is not correct...
...seller about two U.S. families who take part in every war since the Revolution. ("After all, I was the person who suggested the whole idea of having Nancy Gaylord be the mother of Walt Whitman's illegitimate child-it's terrific. He meets her at the Mardi Gras and lays her on a cotton bale-she realizes for the first time that the Yankees are not all as bad as she'd thought.") The satire is not intended to cut deep, but it is an enlightening and timely tract on current U.S. literature's peculiar disorders...
Medieval Christians confessed their sins on Shrove Tuesday (Mardi gras). Grave offenders were assigned to public penitence (sackcloth and ashes, strict fasting, no baths) until finally absolved of their sins on Maundy Thursday, the day before Good Friday. In those days, religion was directly concerned with maintaining public order; lawbreakers were ordered to join the Lenten penitents rather than be thrown into the town lockup...