Word: barnumism
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...less pastoral soul, spring means the grand parade from South Station to the Boston Garden, with the elephants and the caliope leading the way, as the Greatest Show on Earth takes up its annual residence from May 8 to 13. Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey may have lost Gargantua to Yale, but the India rubber man, the tattooed lady, and the fire-eater go on forever. In addition, hundreds of performers defy death daily and the seals plays "God Save the King...
Died. Sir Charles Blake Cochran, 78, England's leading showman ("The British Barnum"); of injuries suffered in scalding bath water, which he was too crippled by arthritis to turn off; in London. Shrewd "C.B." started out selling a quack ointment in the U.S., wound up selling Britain's top stars (Noel Coward, Beatrice Lillie, Gertrude Lawrence) to transatlantic theatergoers. Specializing in both beauty ("Mr. Cochran's Young Ladies") and beasts (he introduced rodeo to a somewhat startled England), he promoted anything he considered a good show ("I would rather see a good juggler than a bad Hamlet...
...farmer named Robert E. Bunker died last week at his home on the outskirts of Mount Airy, a rural community in North Carolina. He was the last of twelve children of Eng, half of the once-famed pair of Siamese twins displayed throughout the nation by Showman P. T. Barnum in the early 19th Century...
Nothing in the crowd of sturdy, suntanned relatives who saw Farmer Bunker to his grave could remind anyone of the medical quirk-luridly advertised by Barnum-that made freaks of their ancestors...
Died. Mrs. Ida Ringling North, 76, only sister of the Ringling brothers who founded Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows Inc., mother of John Ringling North, the circus' current president; in Sarasota...