Word: pontchartrain
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...Cooks In New Orleans. Oldtimers say they have never seen New Orleans, always a merry town, play so hard. The beach resort at Lake Pontchartrain did more business before July 4 than it had done all last year. New Orleans matrons, hard put to find servants, laughed last week at the story of a housewife who went to the Negro slums to look for a cook. She asked two Negro women sitting on a rickety porch if they knew of one, was told: "No. ma'am; we're looking for one ourselves...
...country's top-notchers from Leslie MacMitchell down), tennis matches featuring Don McNeill, Jack Kramer, Ted Schroeder and other top-ten amateurs, a basketball game between Tennessee (Southeastern Conference champions) and Long Island University (Madison Square Garden champions), boxing matches, crew races and a sailing regatta on Lake Pontchartrain. Months ago, New Orleans hotels were already turning down reservations for Sugar Bowl week. Last week beds were being set up in Turkish baths...
Along the low coasts of Texas and Louisiana the tides were abnormally high. Rivers began to run backwards; water from Lake Pontchartrain poured back into the Mississippi. Up & down the coast, from the bayous of Terrebonne Parish to the islands off Texas, the people began to move to high ground...
...Orleans' first stake race was run 104 years ago. A horse named Angora won it, running on a makeshift track near the shores of Lake Pontchartrain, around a grove of moss-hung live oaks. For 36 years the track was a playground for Creole gallants and their blooded plantation ponies, for the stock fairs and horse races of New Orleans' Mechanics' Society. Eventually the informal track became the Fair Grounds...
...entire air fleet of American Export Airlines is one twin-engined Consolidated flying boat. Early this week this boat was ready to rise from Lake Pontchartrain's dirty waters, point its nose southward over the green Gulf of Mexico. To outsiders it was the first Government-approved flight across the Gulf, and it presaged triweekly air service between New Orleans and Central America over a new short-cut route. But to insiders it was the bell for Round II of one of the hottest industrial fights since Harriman v. Hill. The fight: American Export v. Pan American...