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...from an adjoining ballroom. Stokowski stabbed the air with his baton, stopped his orchestra and said: "New Orleans is the only city in the world where you can buy one ticket and get two concerts." Then he retired to the wings until the competing orchestra, playing for a pre-Mardi Gras carnival ball, had stopped. Said the jazz-band leader later: "I'm sorry if we inconvenienced Mr. Stokowski. He is probably very sensitive...
...handful of visitors from outside, the spectacle was a near thing to a combined operation of the Shriners, the Mardi Gras and a chorus of the Metropolitan Opera. In fact, the paraders were "We the people" of the most wide-awake land in tropical Africa: the British Gold Coast. They had gathered to cheer their leader on the third anniversary of National Liberation...
...Miami was recently discussing the record racing season at Hialeah. The talk in Oklahoma one week was the transfer of the 45th Infantry Division from Japan to Korea. Dallas discussed the tidelands oil fight and fretted over dust storms, and New Orleans deplored the poor weather for the Mardi Gras festival...
From across the Iron Curtain, the warning came: Hopalong Cassidy keep out. Soviet authorities in East Berlin last week laid down rules for the kind of fancy-dress costumes school kids may wear during Fasching, the month-long Teutonic version of Mardi Gras. There must be no Red Indian and Negro minstrel costumes: "These are suppressed peoples whose fight for freedom would not be supported by such masquerades." Also verboten: cowboy outfits, which represent "materialist and imperialist tendencies." Recommended substitutes: "costumes of freedom-loving and progressive peoples like the Chinese, Bulgarians and Hungarians...
...first floor balcony of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, six mannequins pose in costumes one might expect to see either at the Mardi Gras or on the Tom Corbett Space Cadet television program. One of the dummies sports a mask composed of a Chinese red semi-sphere and what looks like one half of a stone arrowhead with a black eye hole in the center. One of his arms is a lance, surrounded by a bell-like guard. The other arm, wearing skin-tight silk encased in a gourd shaped sheath, holds a golden club. The remaining five costumes, all designed...