Word: barnumism
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Divorced. William Veeck (rhymes with wreck), 35, canny Barnum of baseball, president of the Cleveland Indians since 1946; by Eleanor Raymond Veeck, thirtyish, onetime Ringling Bros, circus equestrienne; after almost 14 years of marriage, three children; in Tucson, Ariz...
...theory that a P. T. Barnum isn't born every minute, Connecticut's Bridgeport, Bethel and Danbury, angling for a Barnum commemorative postage stamp, wrangled over which of them was the birthplace of the Bethel-born showman...
...last week. Then Broker James M. Johnston, representing an undisclosed customer, suddenly offered $280 a share. For $2.9 million he reportedly snared 80% of National's stock. A few days later, the directors eased President J. Frank White up into the board chairmanship and elected a new president, Barnum L. Colton, who was brought over from the National Savings and Trust Co. There he had been a vice president and had handled the United Mine Workers' deposits, chiefly the welfare fund of some $25 million. Presumablythe fund might now be moved...
...things are more likely to make the U.S. citizen walk a mile with a smile than a chance to get a look at a real, live Russian: he gawks at them with the same delighted curiosity his grandfather turned on for Barnum & Bailey's wild man from Borneo...
With a baseball Barnum's flair for profitable hokum, Bill Veeck touched a match to Lou Boudreau's old contract, and grinned while the flames consumed it. Then 31-year-old Lou Boudreau signed a new, two-year contract as player-manager of the Cleveland Indians. Neither Boudreau nor the Indians' President Veeck was telling the exact salary, but they encouraged guesses of about $65,000 a year...