Europe
After The Carnival It's Clean Up Time
After the carnival it is clean-up time! Europe's gala carnival merry-making is followed by removal of the gargantuan floats and effigies that highlight the pre-Lenten festival parades, a major task and half-comical, half-sad for the clean-up squads.
United States
Boxer Ray Patterson Wins New York Golden Gloves Crown
First boxing match fight on the card is stirring bout between 160 pound sub-novices Jerome Allemby and Lawrence Price who wins by a TKO. Ray Patterson, younger brother-of heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson, wins the. New York Golden Gloves title in the heavyweight open class, with 16,000 fans cheering, among them ring great Gene Tunney.
Twenty Five Years Ago:
Amateur rocket experimenters at Greenwood Lake, N.Y., attempt to launch a mail-carrying 'rocket plane', primitive but hazardous fore-runner of today’s space rockets.
In Washington, the inventor of a 'tri-phibian' vehicle narrowly escapes fiery death when his odd craft burns.
Glimpses of Hollywood greats of 25 years ago paying tribute to movie pioneer Carl Laemmle, Sr., at Universal City. Among those present, Rupert Hughes, Edward Arnold, Otto Kruger, Marguerite Churchill, Hobart Bosworth, Cecil B. DeMille, Jesse Lasky, May Robson, King Baggot, Binnie Barnes and Charlie Murray.
Fashions inspired by international affairs paraded along the chic bar of New York’s Stork Club, in a striking style show.
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