
Meet Rex 2025, 'a connector of people for the good,' a doting grandfather and Carnival's king
When Howell Crosby was a teenager in the 1970s, he spent three Fat Tuesdays crammed inside the Rex organization’s Boeuf Gras float, pulling the string that made the knife-wielding butcher figure move. He said it was fun inside that box. He was paid, too — …