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This week few mortals were closer to heart's desire than Jazz Trumpeter Daniel Louis Armstrong. At 48, he was on his way back to the town where he was born, to be monarch for a day as King of the Zulus in New Orleans' boisterous Mardi Gras. For the first time in its 33-year history, the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club (founded primarily to assure dues-paying members a decent burial) had gone out of town for its carnival king. From its cross-section membership in the past had come Mardi Gras kings who were...
...title, Inside U.S.A. gives little sense of satirizing the American scene, or of really exploring the U.S. with Gunther and camera. It is simply a revue which-in the program, at any rate-is attentive to geography. Where associations are virtually unavoidable-as of New Orleans with the Mardi Gras, New Mexico with the Indians, or Chicago with crime-they have not been avoided. Otherwise the actual locale is of little value or even validity: a county fair labeled Wisconsin, for example, smacks a lot more of Oklahoma...
...Orleans' King of the Mardi Gras is entitled to a royal hangover. But last week's king was one man in New Orleans who did not permit himself such luxuries. He was a doctor, and he had work...
...year ago yesterday . . ." drawls wistful, semi-costumed MARY PENNEBAKER, Radcliffe '51, Hot off the New Orleans delta, she's missing her first Mardi Gras over and reminiscing by trying to show three untravelled Yankees how to tell a Course from a Momus...
...seems this Mardi Gras (Shrova Tuesday to you) came over from France in the old days, and now all kinds of parades, Nalls ("rety formal" says Miss Fennsbaker), and singing in the strects starts happening as early as Christmas time. The whole thing's to keep you going throught Lent, which starts today-Ash Wednesday-and everyone in New Orleans had to immask at tonight last night and head for church...