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...reset button and start again: in Mamou, in Evangeline Parish, in Louisiana's Cajun country, they celebrated Mardi Gras last week on horseback, on the dance floor and belly up in the ditches. The celebration lacked the formality and the aristocracy, whatever that is, of the carnival in New Orleans, but it may have surpassed the Crescent City in madness (you may have the hang of it here...
...period, not a shot was fired by police. His increased foot and mounted patrols pleased downtown businessmen, and he delighted the rank and file by taking to the streets himself when things got slow at headquarters. He has made dozens of % collars in his car, on foot and on horseback, and gained some national publicity when he nabbed a bicycle thief while roller-skating. As for the department, "our morale is the highest it's ever been," reports the head of the police association, "and it's because of the chief." But the accomplishment that pleases Greenberg most...
...CAPPUCINO in a Greek restaurant, Pamela Yates and Tom Sigel look like an all-too-typical, yuppie couple enjoying a comfortable, Bostonian existence. Only when they start to talk, he more reticently but just as intensely as she, do they reveal the passion which has led them--by jeep, horseback and foot--throughout all of Central America...
Although Yale triumphed in The Game, 30-27, both teams' fans had reason to cheer. The contest was one of the more exciting Harvard-Yale matches, and one of the safest. Security guards on foot and horseback prevented students from approaching the greased goal posts. When it was all over, the Stadium was quickly cleared of football fans and other wildlife, but remnants of both remained. In the midst of manure and trash, a small group of Harvard fans stood on the field and sang while the hand played "Ten Thousand Men of Harvard...
...Porter afficianados probably will have trouble remembering You Never Know, Conceived by Porter as an intimate "chamber musical" with a small cast and none of the painstakingly choreographed routines so typical of commercialized Broadway, then as now, You Never Know might easily have remained forever unknown. When a debilitating horseback riding accident in 1937 left both of Portar's legs forever crippled, the Shuberts took the production into their own hands. Under their direction, "You Never Know" suffered more creative perversions than even contemporary Hollywood screenwriters would tolerate...