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...Schalefer June Yosell, Swampscott John M. Scanlon Martha Hastings, Clinton Mark P. Schorger Diana Fraser, Radcliffe James L. Schwab, Jr. Lucy Milner, Dalton School Lionel a. Schwartz Marcia Rosen, Boston Joseph C. Scott Jeanne Owens, Belmont Thomas W. Sears, Jr. Mande Fellowes, Jamestown, R. I. John R. Shattuck Mardi Dickson, Endicott Junior College Melvin I. Shoul Anne T. Joyce, Trinity Ralph T. Siegler Zelda Sobel, Brooklyn College Herbert R. Silverman Connie Flint, Newton Center David L. Simon Bernice Sondelman, Brookline Andrew E. Smith Jacqulyn Saunders Kennedy Smith Winkie van Linnop, Philadelphia Francis E. Stanley Peggy Tumbull, Wellesley Samuel K. Stewart...
Combining beauty and polse with the well-known Oomph, Miss Mardi Dickinson of Winchester outstripped all other contestants and won hands down the title of "Glamor Girl of the East" among Harvard undergraduates...
Baker writes for the Southern Review, has published a novel called "Orange Valley" and is now working on a series of poems dealing with the New Orleans Mardi Gras...
...Shrove Tuesday in New Orleans. Early on this Mardi Gras morning, before the white folks' Rex comes in splendor to Canal Street, the Negroes are having their own carnival. Up squalid New Basin glides a barge, canopied in sacking, to the wharf at Rampart Street and Howard Avenue. Off the barge strides the King of the Zulus, right royal in black underwear, a hula skirt of sea grass, a tin crown. His sceptre is a broomstick, topped by a snow-white rooster. Preceding him is his Queen, behind are his capering dukes. The King mounts his throne-a decrepit...
...never will King John ride in tin-crowned glory up the Street of the old Rampart Last week, at 47, John Metoyer died. At the Brown Bomber the mourning Zulus gathered, planned a proper funeral with five bands, pallbearers in Mardi Gras skirts of grass, and all the Zulu mourners carrying coconuts. The coconuts would be laid on John Metoyer's bier, that he might fight his way to joy with the heavenly Queen of the Amazon Islands. Mourners hoped that John Metoyer's boyhood friend and Zulu clubmember, famed Zulu Louis ("Satchelmouth") Armstrong, would come down from...