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Empty Franks. The least surprising fact of Tom Parker's life is that it began in a traveling carnival which his parents worked. Orphaned as a child, he worked for his uncle's Great Parker Pony Circus, had his own pony-and-monkey act when he was in his teens. Barker, merry-go-round operator, candied-apple dipper, ice shaver for snow cones and general man-about-the-midway, he once took a job as a dogcatcher in Tampa, Fla., where he gave away hundreds of puppies to kids...
Suddenly from deep underneath the jagged Zagros mountain range came a 50-second, stomach-wrenching tremor. A toppling wall buried 70 girl students, killing 58. The dome of the bazaar collapsed like a circus tent after roustabouts removed the center poles. For a moment the stunned city was deathly still. Then the moans of the dying mingled with the wails of the survivors, who clawed with bare hands at the rubble, frantically searching for missing parents or children...
...caricature, he splashes his hotels with colorful bordello opulence that offends traditionalists, flabbergasts sophisticates and often delights the uninitiated. Lapidus takes pride in the fact that he gives people "something to gape at.'' In fact, he calls his arced, 565-room Fontainebleau a "tasteful three-ring circus." But the star turn among his hotels is the $17 million Americana, which he designed right down to the bellhops' uniforms. In the lobby of the hotel is a glass-enclosed terrarium, open on top so that the lobby can be rained into without wetting the guests...
...decided to bring out Camels in 1913 in a package decorated with a very sick-looking animal. Recalls former Director R. C. Haberkern: "He was atrocious. He had pointed ears, his head was bad, his feet looked like sweet potatoes." The problem was not solved until the Barnum & Bailey circus came to Winston-Salem, and the Camel people got a look at their first dromedary, Old Joe. Old Joe was promptly photographed, drawn for the package. (When Reynolds tried to change the package slightly in 1958, it got so many complaints that it had to switch back...
Timex-Bertram Mills Circus (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Europe's oldest Big Top seen on video tape, with U.S. Comedian Joe E. Brown as ringmaster to lend a home-town touch...