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Norman S. B. Gras, to complete for publication a book entitled "Economic and Business History of the United States...
Star attraction of the season is the carnaval at Rio de Janeiro, which is some thing special even among the gay celebra tions of Latin America: a swirling four-day-and-four-night bender of lights, noise, tinsel and music that makes New Orleans' Mardi Gras look like a meeting of the Modern Language Association...
Canadians still like snowshoeing. Quebec alone has 75 clubs de raquette, innumerable snowshoe festivals. Last week, in that quaint old city, 4,000 U. S. and Canadian raquetteurs gathered for their annual get-together. In Mardi Gras mood, with bands tootling, they paraded through its snaky, snowy streets, dressed in the gaily colored winter costumes of the French-Canadian settlers...
...thousand miles up the orchid-stinking Amazon ocean freighters pulled up to the $40,000,000 stone pier and floating dock at Manaus. They took away a single cargo, bolachas (crude rubber balls). They brought a more varied one: pink tiles, champagne, pâté de foie gras, grand pianos, gold watches, diamond rings, French lingerie for rubber kings' naked native wives, French mistresses to replace them. Manaus went cultural, built a $5,000,000 opera house, closed it again when half the first opera company promptly died of yellow fever. There were also malaria, hookworm, poisonous insects...
Last week, after taking it out of moth balls twice before when times were good, Chicago's Washington Park-with all the fanfare of a Mardi Gras-staged a $62,000 revival of the American Derby, aimed to make it once more the richest three-year-old race...