Article: Rose Parade grand marshal announcement Friday

NEW YORK CITY - If it's June, it must be time to think about the Rose Parade on Jan. 1, 2008.

That's what Tournament of Roses President CL Keedy is betting on, anyway, and in a double break from tradition, will announce next year's grand marshal Friday morning six months early and from the set of "Good Morning America" in New York City.

"It's because of scheduling issues both for myself and the grand marshal," Keedy said from New York.

"To get us together, we had to do it here and we wanted to do it sooner rather than later," he said. "We hope this provides us more opportunity to have the grand marshal in public view for a longer time - assuming it's somebody," Keedy said mysteriously.

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