Word: barnumism
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...giveaways undoubtedly help to fill some empty seats, any club owner would trade in his erupting Scoreboard tomorrow for one 20-game winner. "Give me a day with Vida Blue," says Senators' Vice President Joe Burke, "and 20,000 people will find their way to the stadium." Finley, the Barnum of baseball, is the first to agree: "You've got to have a good team. You can't ballyhoo a funeral...
...Efforts are under way to prevent the disease from spreading. Authorities have quarantined all of the state's horses, not only forbidding owners to ship them out of the state but prohibiting intercounty movement as well. The order, which grounded a unit of the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Dallas, may keep the deadly equine epidemic confined to Texas though horses from the famed King Ranch were shipped to Kentucky prior to the quarantine and may be carrying the disease. The quarantine will do little to prevent those animals already exposed from becoming food for the buzzards...
...lowbrow taste," now known euphemistically as making music "relevant," Munves is acknowledged by his peers to be one of the master salesmen and packagers of the record world. What makes him unusual is that his field is not rock, but serious music. "You can call me the P.T. Barnum of the classics," he says, with the modest air of a burlesque barker. "They've never had anybody like me." Quite...
...Congressmen, many of whom had to cut short their all-too-customary long weekends to get the trains moving again. They rushed through the sixth bill in the past four years to head off national rail strikes. Certainly not the least discommoded victims were 18 Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey circus elephants, which were marched 13 miles from South Kearny, N.J., through the Lincoln Tunnel and into Manhattan for a scheduled performance...
Most stage directors know that controlling a cast of actors requires a combination of affection and whip cracking. To Animal Trainer Gunther Gebel-Williams, the gaudy star of the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus, the right mixture of toughness and tenderness means more than professional success; it means physical survival...