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...bond-drive posters. A crowd of 10,000 turned out. The parade was fine: there was a reasonable facsimile of George Washington, a flock of sheep in the Future Fanners of America entry, and a church window made of colored paper. The winning float was a 12-ft., papier-mache Statue of Liberty with a flask of plasma in her right hand and a sheaf of bonds under her left arm. One student marcher confessed that his crim son Cossack coat was really a girl's bed jacket, and one of his medals was a high-school prize...
...paraded past the reviewing stand, where happy Cardinal Lercaro stood, tossing out little sacks of cookies and sweets and being pelted with confetti and rice. A few days later, on St. Joseph's Day, the cardinal again broke out his carnival displays-the giant Mickey Mouse, the enormous papier-mâché caterpillar, the ducks and the Martian flying saucers. This time, 40,000 people came for the fun, while Mayor Dozza's city police dutifully kept order...
Outside a glassy new brick and marble store in West Hartford, Conn, last week, a squad of men worked feverishly wiring 40,000 artificial appleblossoms to a score of real trees. Inside the entrance, four sequined, papier-mâché peacocks bore signs proclaiming: WE'RE PROUD AS A PEACOCK TO BE IN HARTFORD. This week the building opened its doors with a peacock-proud flourish: ten gallons of Arpege perfume (retails at $23.50 an ounce) were sprayed around the entrance...
...letter day on any Davidson man's social calendar is the Homecoming football game, which this year was last Saturday's game with Furman. College officials proclaim the day a holiday; each fraternity strips off the air of conformity and puts on a papier-mache veneer of garlands and streamers in an attempt to out-decorate the other ten houses. Consisting of a formal dance on Friday and informal dances on Saturday, these weekends usually feature name bands...
Agents for Candidate Bob Kerr staked out the Hilton's Normandie Lounge as a site for a genuine log cabin to symbolize Millionaire Oilman Kerr's humble beginnings. When they discovered the cabin would cost $25,000, they settled for a papier-mache model worth $600. A "Kids for Kefauver" club scavenged the International Amphitheater to collect hundreds of old Taft signs, set to work to refurbish the sticks with Kefauver signs...