Word: barnumism
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Customarily the path of good fiction in the U. S. runs from East to West. A book is published in Manhattan and the story sold to Hollywood. Last week witnessed the process reversed. Out of Hollywood came a scenario, The Mighty Barnum, in book form...
...died like flies. A dozen or more last survivors perished in one small pool. Clay and sandstone covered the bones. In the course of ages the pool bottom became a hilltop in Wyoming's Big Horn Mountains. A rancher stumbled on the spot, saw some outcroppings, informed Dr. Barnum Brown, curator of fossil reptiles at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History...
...Bald Barnum Brown was born in Carbondale, Kans. 61 years ago. He has hunted bones off & on for 30 years, gave up a lucrative job as an oil geologist to devote all his time to paleontology. He has dug up hundreds of fossils on five continents, including the best extant specimens of a nodosaur (or epinodosaur), and a hoplitosaur, two rare species of armored, thick-set dinosaurs. He considers his enthusiasm "a form of dementia...
...Columbia University, to be Franklin Delano Roosevelt's chief economic adviser, his chief Braintruster. his Assistant Secretary of State. Today Mr. Moley is editor of Today and still a potent factor at the White House. Meanwhile at rustic, somnolent Berea one Moley sister married Superintendent T. R. Barnum of Cleveland Quarries. Sister Nell became a buyer for Cleveland's Halle Bros, department store, continued to live in Berea with Mother Moley. Brother Jim, amiable and easygoing, was proprietor of the Moley Tire Shop in Berea until business grew bad. Then Brother...
Adult, 26, worldlywise, once named as corespondents in a Kansas City divorce action. Daisy-&-Violet Hilton argued last week that they knew what they were doing about marriage. They cited Chang-&-Eng, the actual Siamese whom P. T. Barnum made so famed that all conjoined twins thenceforth have been called "Siamese." Chang-&-Eng (1811-74) took the name Bunker and married daughters of David Yates, North Carolina minister. The wives kept separate domiciles in which the brothers took turns living. Chang had ten children, Eng nine. Their descendants are reported still living in the Piedmont...