Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Except for the Great Unus, along with the Great Lamberti and the Great Alzanas, this year's Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus has little out of the ordinary to offer, which is not a particularly damning criticism if you happen to be entertained by polar bears, clowns, horses, acrobats, dancing girls, lions, aerialists, or unicycle riders. These standard items have been produced with aplomb, magnificence, smoothness, showmanship, and noisy music, leaving little to be nostalgically longed after by circus devotees except possibly the Wallendas, who used to ride bicycles across high wires...
...Married: in 1907 to Elizabeth Watson of Grand Rapids, who died in 1916; in 1918 to Hazel H. Whitaker, a Fort Wayne schoolteacher, social worker and newspaperwoman. Children (by his first wife): Arthur H. Vandenberg Jr., 40, a bachelor and his father's longtime secretary; Mrs. John Bailey, 38, of Battle Creek, Mich.; Mrs. Edward Pfeiffer, 36, of Huntington, N.Y. Church: Congregational. Nicknames: Van (to his friends), Pops (to his wife...
...full Corporation meeting is scheduled for this afternoon, but David W. Bailey '21, Secretary to the Board of Overseers, could not state definitely that the issue would be brought up. Presumably, this would be the last chance for discussion before the Wednesday deadline that Atkinson mentioned...
...Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus opened its 1948 tour with a 33-day stand in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. The show's biggest hit: Unus of Vienna, "gravity -defying equilibristic wonder" who balances himself on his forefinger on a glass ball, then does a one-hand stand atop a cane while twirling hoops with his feet, his mouth and his free hand...
...Circus (Sun. 2:15 p.m., CBS Television). Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey's big show, from Madison Square Garden...