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Otto Griebling, the world-famous Ringling Bros, Barnum & Bailey Circus clown died yesterday in New York, after half a century in the circus business...
Griebling had been performing daily with the circus until he entered the hospital ten days...
...Chaplin's second Academy citation. In 1929 he was honored for the "versatility and genius" of The Circus...
Opposed. At week's end a lawyer for Mrs. Beard called a news conference at her Denver hospital to say that she "categorically denies" that any deal involving convention funds was made between ITT and the Government. She considered the hearing "an absurd circus" and wanted to testify as soon as she was medically able "in order to put at rest false rumors, innuendos and outright lies...
Kubrick's next two works, though failures, were hopeful ones. Sparticus was, as Stanley Kauffmann said, a first-rate circus, giving the director a chance to have fun with blockbuster sets and length. Lolita lacked a painfully necessary erotic core, but it had, in Peter Sellers, a brilliant Quilty. It was with Dr. Strangelove that Kubrick again fulfilled his talent--what he accomplished, not only in story structure and images but with parodic dialogue and commentary as well, needs little more appreciation than it has already, justly, received...