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...Orleans had 16 Mardi Gras balls. In 1946 there were 36. This year, a record-breaking total of 49 are being held. Last week, with Carnival Day (Shrove Tuesday) fast approaching, New Orleans' social whirl had assumed the proportions of a maelstrom...
Vanity Fair is constructed like a revolving stage, where city & country and night & day whirl drunkenly together. In the foreground, a naked figure leans out of his window to peer through the gloom at Cain killing Abel in the sunlit distance...
...second biggest and (it is hoped) the most powerful cyclotron in the world was nearing completion last week. It was being built at Nevis, Columbia University's atomic country estate near Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y. The 2,300-ton magnet (whose concentrated field will make electrified particles whirl in obedient circles) has been assembled out of 60-ton steel chunks. The drum-shaped pole pieces in the center will be wound with coils containing 150 tons of copper. The building, to be banked with earth to block deadly radiation, is finished...
Founder Woodward was caught up in a whirl of interviews, picture-taking, mail-opening. In the midst of it, she led an L.B.K. parade down Main Street that tied up Dallas midtown traffic for an hour and a half. Paraders carried signs saying: "Short Skirts. Save Dollars. Save Eye-strain." Short-skirted girls chased long-skirted girls with brooms. Finally, the L.B.K.s charged up to the doors of the famed Neiman-Marcus department store. Shaking brooms and fists, they cried: "Down with the long! Up with the short...
Fowl Deeds. In Center Groton, Conn., 74-year-old Mrs. John Yetter surprised a fox in her chicken coop, doughtily grabbed it by the tail, gave it a whirl, bashed its head against the ground. In Willington, Conn., Mary Cski, 75, heard a commotion among her hens, hustled down, caught a marauding 8-lb. chicken hawk with her bare hands...