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Until 4 a.m. on Ash Wednesday, stocky (5 ft. 8 in.), moderate-drinking (scotch) Alton Ochsner, a bouncing 51, carried out his carnival duties. As. Rex, King of the Carnival, he wore a white satin suit, high white kid boots and bejeweled cloth-of-gold robes. But at 7:30 a.m.-an hour and a quarter later than usual-he was on the job in white surgeon's gown at Prytania and Aline Streets. Dr. Ochsner's real job is director of Ochsner Clinic...
...deceased, an aunt of my husband's, was "laid away" in the satin-lined bronze casket she had requested before her death. At burial, this was enclosed in a steel, water proof vault. As soon as possible after the funeral, an elaborate marble slab was erected over the grave. The difference between the cost of that funeral and the minimum it could have cost would have seen one of my children through four years of college...
...blaze of pink candles, a bed of pink azaleas, baby spots playing on the potted plants, a hamburger stand and an ice cream stand, champagne ("all French") in five-foot jeroboams, Moscow Mules* in copper souvenir cups. After breakfast (4 a.m.) Ginny hauled off her hoopskirt ("icy white satin . . . after a Winterhalter portrait of the Empress Eugénie") and fell into...
...stations buy his transcribed show). As a jockey, the Duke promised to be impressive: his jazz know-how gave his between-platter comments a fine mood indigo. One record, he decided, had a "pear ice cream" flavor; Songstress Sarah Vaughn was "serpentine and opalesque"; Crooner Vic Damone "caressed with satin and gave a back porch intimacy...
...position, the undertaker quietly suggested, should certainly lie in a sheet-bronze casket with a quilted satin lining. Of course the widow would want the body to be on view in the "reposing room" before the ceremony. The service could be held either in the "chapel" or in a regular church, whichever she preferred, but it would be a great comfort to know that her late husband would be laid away in a vault of waterproof cement, guaranteed to give protection "not for years, not for life, but forever." The whole thing would come to about...