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...college," said a visiting headmaster. In clipped tones, Scott never stops pushing his students into the past. He even twangs the guitar and sings obscure colonial tunes. He drives himself so hard by day, says one teacher, that "at night the man is as limp as an old circus balloon." In theory, concentrating on relatively few events should force Scott to shortchange his students on others. In practice, Scott does not neglect "facts." His students do very well on College Board tests...
Four Pounds, Two Titles. Despite all this social activity, not to mention Rigoletto at the Bolshoi and a Russian circus, Salinger managed to squeeze in a little duty. He toured the Izvestia and Pravda plants, talked with newsmen in Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev-all off the record...
...that they are shaking their fists in the winds of change; and they must know, too, that no other gesture could so clearly express the real state of the white man's conscience in the South. The rest of the South is already finding it hard to ignore this circus of shame, these "Freedom Rides...
...given way to the hardtop, the circus (TIME, April 13) has undergone many a change. But nothing has changed more than its co-attraction, the sideshow. Once a traveling chamber of biological horrors, it has now been tamed into a sort of Ed Sullivan variety show with cotton candy and Cracker Jack. Rationalizing the metamorphosis is Nate Eagle, 62, the corpulent, mustachioed talker and general manager of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey's sideshow. Says horn-voiced Eagle: "You don't find freaks in sideshows any more. You find strange people, odd people, unusual people-sword swallowers, tattooed...
Died. Frank Wilson Braden. 76. cigar-puffing circus press agent, a walking, talking thesaurus of big-top ballyhoo to whom clowns were not clowns but rather "red-nosed, chalk-faced worshipers of the bluebird of happiness." who variously trumpeted the thrills of the Gentry. Sells-Floto, Ringling Brothers-Barnum & Bailey, and Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers circuses for half a century; of pneumonia; in Providence...