Word: barnumism
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...Geordie won by such an impressive margin that he was haled away to Australia with the British Olympic team, but there at last he met his match: a 6-ft. lady shotputter named Helga. What happens next is probably the meatiest love affair known to show business since Barnum publicized Jumbo and Alice, and it is certainly one of the funniest in years. The moviegoer should have a thoroughly silly good time just sitting and watching two people make beautiful muscles together...
CIRCUS DEAL is brewing between John Ringling North and Sports Promoter Bill Veeck, onetime owner of St. Louis Browns, who wants to keep big top operating by buying North's Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey. Veeck's group reportedly offered $2,500,000 for performers, tents and animals, but North wants more...
Adlai is promising miracles: sounder money, but lower taxes; bigger federal spending, but a balanced budget; stronger defense, but end the draft. Barnum would exhibit him as the original magician if only Barnum were alive...
...large enough faculty; most of the men he wanted had never heard of Michigan State. A good football team, the president reasoned, would at least bring recognition. "If it meant the betterment of Michigan State," said Hannah then, "our football team would play any eleven gorillas from Barnum & Bailey any Saturday...
...course, getting Jumbo onto the Tufts campus and into the Barnum Museum caused no little stir. The building's stone steps had to be removed and its floor lowered three times before Jumbo gained his final resting place in 1890. By that time the huge elephant had officially become the Tufts' mascot and the college was nicknamed the "Jumbos...