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...telegram from a horse last week. The horse was Bozo, a big rangy hunter in a big box stall looking out over the rolling hills of Tennessee's fertile Harpeth Valley. The man, owner of the horse, was slight, black-haired James Geddes Stahlman, 44, publisher of the Nashville, Tenn. Banner. He was in the grand ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria in Manhattan where the 51st annual meeting of the American Newspaper Publishers Association had just elected him its president...
...years President Stahlman has hunted Bozo with the Hillsboro Hounds. For even longer he has been on his escalator-like way to the presidency of the ANPA. Third Southerner, one of the youngest men to be so chosen, heading a relatively small (72,015 circulation) newspaper, President Stahlman had a sampling at last week's convention of the major problems facing U. S. newspaper publishers: a threatened 1938 newsprint price rise of $7.50 a ton, 25% up in three years; an increasingly difficult taxation situation complicated by Social Security, particularly involving the use of boys to deliver and sell...
There is a comedian named Bozo. Mere words cannot describe the pure gold that flows from his tongue sweeter than honey and more pithy than the cedars of Lebanon. Bozo is a character who must be seen to be believed. His mouth may be likened to the Carlsbad caverns and his voice to the fog horn of a Nantucket whaler. And there are innumerable Bozo's in the crowd who take almost childlike delight in bellowing wisecracks at the actors. We must confess that we ourselves were so so carried away by the spirit of the occasion that we emitted...
...Midway, officially named.for the amusement centre of the 1893 Fair, the visitor will find under new names most of the devices which amused the visitors of 40 years ago. Here are the Lindy Loop, the Hey Dey, Bozo, a roller coaster, Midget Village, captive balloon, shooting galleries, an Oriental village with dancing girls...
...crate exhibit. Most indifferent were two Llamas, who chewed cud quietly for five days. Most valuable per pound were two lion-headed goldfish valued at $500 each. Youngest were a litter of white mice born just as the show closed. Most popular was a baby elephant known variously as Bozo, Buddy and Buck. Least popular was a timid young skunk, which was shunned by all until officials explained that it had been deodorized...