Word: barnumism
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...Greatest Show on Earth came to Boston this week amid the roars of lions, tigers, panthers, and assorted lesser beasts. Emmet Kelly, shown here, and the rest of the Ringling Bros., Barnum and Bailey cast will give two shows daily through Sunday. For as little as $1.50 students can lose themselves in a dreamworld of clowns, high wire acts, side shows, and menageries. All seats are reserved, but any Ford Foundation students under twelve can get in for half-price by going on a weekday afternoon to the matinee...
...This week the Piccadilly prince is about to marry the tearoom Cinderella. The man who brought Fortnum & Mason and ABC shops together: Canadian-born Willard Garfield Weston, 56, owner of Fortnum & Mason and boss of Britain's huge Allied Bakeries, who is known throughout the empire as "the Barnum of bread." If ABC stockholders approve, Baker Weston will pay $8,120,000 for ABC, one of England's biggest low-cost restaurant businesses, second only to Lyon's Corner House chain. Through Allied Bakeries, Weston already controls the United King dom's biggest bakery chain...
...National Guard cavalry escort. She went on in triumph to the Peace Conference and captured Arthur Balfour, British Foreign Secretary, as her dinner guest at the Ritz. Elsa was firmly launched as the hostess who combined a touch of Mme. de Recamier with the flair of P. T. Barnum...
...July afternoon in 1944. the big top of the Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey Circus, pitched in an open field near Hartford, Conn., burst into flames. Within half an hour, the tent was gone and 169 people, two-thirds of them children, were dead or fatally injured. Last week, ten years to the day after the fire, Bridgeport's Superior Court Judge John T. Cullinan ordered the circus to pay $100,000 in legal fees to Julius B. Schatz. Hartford attorney who had served as legal counsel during a decade of receivership. When the fee is paid, the litigation that...
...Barnum L. Colton, banker and longtime close friend of Labor Leader John L. Lewis and Financier Cyrus Eaton, was elected president of Washington's Hamilton National Bank. Hand-picked by Lewis (whose United Mine Workers just bought control of Hamilton), Colton's election paves the way for the merger of Hamilton and the National Bank of Washington (controlled by Lewis since 1949). The merger would make it the No. 2 Washington bank (after the Riggs National Bank) and provide investment outlets for U.M.W.'s $140 million in reserves, welfare and retirement funds...