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Last March, the B.U. ruggers won a Mardi Gras tournament in New Orleans. Boston media played the event up, including a Globe feature on the team and a promotion at an area department store where the Terriers modeled sportswear and signed autographs. Since that extravaganza, Harvard has wanted to put B.U. in its place...
...throw a party that would dazzle even the most jaded of his guests: Kings and Queens, Presidents and Premiers, sheiks and sultans. More than $100 million was spent on tents lined with silk and furnished with Baccarat crystal and Porthault linens, banquets laden with roast peacock stuffed with foie gras, magnums of Château Lafite-Rothschild...
...deal was to have been sealed at a gathering in New Orleans this week -during Mardi Gras-of the Mafia's nationwide controlling commission. It would have been the most important meeting of the mob bosses since their celebrated conclave in Apalachin, N.Y., in 1957. The Chicago and New Orleans families were to have pinned down just how to cut the $2 million payoff for switching the Teamster insurance. Another topic was to have been how to recover Mafia dominance of the narcotics traffic. The FBI had hoped that much of the discussion would have been picked...
...else would make the music at Mardi Gras but New Orleans' favorite horn man, Al Hirt, dressed in a flashy festival costume as a French aristocrat? Bourbon Street and the French Quarter may not see as much of the pudgy entertainer as they have up to now. He is putting together a 17-piece orchestra-Al Hirt's Big Band from Dixieland-and taking it on the road. "There's a resurgence in bands," he explains. "The age of the guitars is gone. After the Beatles, there were a few good groups, but most of them were...
...Longhair," whose recordings of the '40s and early '50s laid the groundwork for rock 'n' roll; of a heart attack; in New Orleans. Born in Bogalusa, La., Byrd taught himself to play the piano, imitating such barrelhouse blues players as Kid Stormy Weather. His Mardi Gras in New Orleans and Big Chief combined elements of blues, New Orleans marching music and Caribbean rhythms. Though he never matched the success of Fats Domino and others who popularized the Byrd piano style, recognition finally came in the '70s when his band, the Blues Scholars, scored with...