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Trains bound for New Orleans carried many an extra coach last week. Steamships had full lists. Air passengers coasting down toward the city at twilight saw its bright crescent glittering with extraordinary brilliance. Mississippi Valley farmers, fun-hunters from the North, socialites from the South, soldiers, sailors, beggars, gamblers, sportsmen and bootleggers packed together in broad Canal Street, looked up at huge electric signs forming the letters K O M (Krewe of Momus, Son of Night & Lord of Misrule). By those letters they knew that the Carnival had begun...
...line, before Zimmerman passed to Haynes for the first Tulane touchdown. Dalrymple caught a pass within 3 yd. of the goal in the last quarter and Glover slipped across for Tulane's second a moment later. The crowd-83.000-sat still in a warm twilight while Tulane tried for the extra point and failed. Ernie Pinckert, a brilliant blocking back, made two of Southern California's touchdowns. Ray Sparling the other. After the game they heard themselves described as "football champions of the Universe," watched their coach, Howard Jones, brother of Yale's Tad, being presented with...
...studded gilt room staring at the ceiling through grey, opaque eyes; smoking long, thin Turkish cigarettes. Some men called him the Sphynx; he called himself Napoleon. It was shortly after he had announced that the Empire meant peace that France drifted into the Crimean War out of whose dreary twilight the world hears only one sweet note, a Nightingale's. Today at 12, Professor Langer will lecture in Harvard 6 upon how the Crimean War came about...
...cosmopolite. Mr. Hersey has the great gift of combining the country of which he talks with the characters about which the authors have written. The result is that Tess lives her tragic life before you, and you pause with Mr. Hersey to watch the straggler on the read at twilight while the heath embrowns itself against...
...TWILIGHT OF A GOD. He couldn't die, who never lived. So he outlived his day. From his place in the car cards he looked down, each day, upon a rising tide of soft shirts. At last they engulfed him completely and he was swept away. His passing is viewed with mixed feeling...