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Every Sunday in New Orleans, a crowd of jazz fans thread their way into a Bourbon Street gin mill called The Paddock. The lucky ones find seats close up at the bar, where the music is loudest, and with a deference equaling that of longhair purists, listen to an eight-piece band playing oldtime, home-town jazz. The leader of the band is a smiling, coal-black trumpet player named Oscar ("Papa") Celestin, 69 (or maybe 74), who has been playing the same kind of straight, hard jazz for more than 50 years...
...turning off the electric lights. Then they totted up the toll: 18 gallons of lobster Newburg, 450 hamburgers, eight turkeys, eight hams, a bushel of green salad, eight gallons of lavender-pink potato salad, six crocks of baked beans, eight gallons of sherbet, dozens of cases of bourbon, Scotch and gin, 120 bottles of champagne. Said Martha: "Everything came out even, except Clem Ryan." The evening had cost Millionaire Ryan something like...
...interest beyond work and family: good food. He imports Cheddar cheese from his district (New York's new 37th-the Binghamton area) and passes it around on the Hill. California's Representative Leroy Johnson keeps him supplied with Bing cherries, which Cole soaks for a year in bourbon to produce his own excellent cherry liqueur...
King Frederik of Denmark held a small royal traffic court of his own. His uncle, Prince Rene de Bourbon-Parma, 59, a Copenhagen meat exporter, recently rammed two cars in a hit & run accident after a drinking bout. Since the Prince is a member of the royal family and immune to prosecution in the courts, the King himself pronounced sentence: no driving for a year...
Born. To deposed King Michael of Rumania, 31, who abdicated under Communist pressure in 1947, and Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma, 29: their third child, third daughter; in Lausanne, Switzerland. Weight...