Word: barnumism
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...shorthand champion who used to take dictation from Bernard Baruch. Now he takes it from nobody. Billy Rose, who is about the size of a Broadway boutonniere, is a self-made showman, songwriter (Million Dollar Baby) and saloonkeeper. He is also a zealous art collector. Last week the bantam Barnum, jack of many a theatrical trade, was mastering a new one. As an offbeat Broadway columnist who pays to be published, he had received offers from two newspaper syndicates who wanted to pay him instead...
Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey's Circus, which had been stuck in New York during the coal strike, got stuck again-this time in Boston, while a baby giraffe was born in a tent. In Lancaster, Pa., city firemen were routed out at 4:30 a.m., had to couple up long hoses to water a trainload of 2,000 thirsty hogs. There was chicken trouble, too-hundreds of automatic incubators were hatching thousands of eggs every hour. Unable to ship the new arrivals, owners gloomily planned mass drownings...
...News's headlines crackled; its pictures were good, and masterfully played; its news stories were models of clarity, conciseness and coarse wit. Joe Patterson's journalism owed more to P. T. Barnum than to Adolph Ochs. No story in the News was "important but dull"; if the news was important, there was no need for it to be dull. In world affairs, the News could tell in two columns most of what the New York Times took eight to tell. But the News did best on what the Times aloofly did not consider Fit to Print...
Drama is not the word for "Around the World," Neither, surprisingly enough, is comedy--or musical, nor farce, nor phantasy. Orson Welles' first Mercury Theatre production in over five years is a peculiar extravaganza, conglomerated of elements from "Hellzapoppin," Barnum and Bailey's and the Ballet Russe...
...Notable voices among his 5,000 records: Gladstone, Florence Nightingale, P. T. Barnum, Theodore Roosevelt...