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...Despite rising prices and chilly weather, New Orleans boasted of the largest, gayest Mardi Gras since its beginning in 1827. Forty-three balls were scheduled. Thirteen parades tootled through flag-festooned streets. As far away as Biloxi, Miss, hotels were chock full, and private rooms in town were bringing...
...days a week, Leesville (S.C.) was just a sleepy southern farm town on U.S. Highway No. 1. But on the seventh day (Monday), its 1,217 citizens were in a Mardi Gras mood, catering to hundreds of money-heavy strangers who had come 29 miles from Columbia or 200 miles from Atlanta to attend "operation circus." Few in Leesville knew what "circus" was all about, except that a lot of new & used cars were bought & sold, but it brought money to Leesville to make the town happy...
...Princeton's first reunion since 1942, and the largest in her 200 years; 10,000 alumni from 52 classes were singing Going Back to Nassau Hall. Tired businessmen, bankers, lawyers and bond salesmen joyfully shucked off their Brooks Brothers' pinstripes and climbed into silly Mardi Gras costumes for a lost weekend. For four days Mayor Minot Morgan Jr., '35 and the police of little Princeton borough (pop. 7,719) were as busy as if the Legion had come to town...
...Memphis newspapers proudly pointed out, the biggest celebration in the Carnival's 75-year history. Warmed with blended bourbon, many a Memphian decided that in this year of peace & plenty it was even better than New Orleans' historic Mardi gras. Despite occasional rain, the city echoed to the sound of countless parades; of parties and balls at which Carnival satraps made glittering entrances. The Cotton King and his Queen were regal with crowns, scepters, robes and brocades. Memphis' secret organizations (Osiris, Ra-Met, Scarabs, Sphinx, etc.) had princes & princesses of their own, dressed them almost as brightly...
...best-seller about two U.S. families who take part in every war since the Revolution. ("After all, I was the person who suggested the whole idea of having Nancy Gaylord be the mother of Walt Whitman's illegitimate child-it's terrific. He meets her at the Mardi Gras and lays her on a cotton bale-she realizes for the first time that the Yankees are not all as bad as she'd thought.") The satire is not intended to cut deep, but it is an enlightening and timely tract on current U.S. literature's peculiar...