Monday Memo

RIP James Bellows: With Mr. Bellows's support, Mr. Felker, who died last year, embraced the use of novelistic techniques to give reporting new layers of emotional depth. New Journalism's admirers — and there were detractors — believed that it presented the news more truthfully than traditional objective reporting.

RIP Antoinette K-Doe: The first Baby Dolls showed up early Tuesday at Ernie K-Doe's Mother-in-Law Lounge in New Orleans, ready for Mardi Gras. Outfitted in satin bonnets and outlandish Baby Snooks dresses, the platoon of undeniably adult women had turned up to meet their leader, Antoinette K-Doe, for a march up Claiborne Avenue and back to the lounge for a day of full-tilt…