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...July afternoon in 1944. the big top of the Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey Circus, pitched in an open field near Hartford, Conn., burst into flames. Within half an hour, the tent was gone and 169 people, two-thirds of them children, were dead or fatally injured. Last week, ten years to the day after the fire, Bridgeport's Superior Court Judge John T. Cullinan ordered the circus to pay $100,000 in legal fees to Julius B. Schatz. Hartford attorney who had served as legal counsel during a decade of receivership. When the fee is paid, the litigation that...
Actor Gilbert, 29, was born into a vaudevillian's family in upstate New York, was early farmed out to a troupe of South American aerialists. and turned to comedy when he plunged through the safety net in a 65-ft. circus fall. An ex-fighter pilot, Gilbert sings well enough for light opera, can play five musical instruments, juggle, dance and do acrobatics. He will probably be around TV for quite a while...
...Electro-Motive Division has designed a special flatcar, 75 ft. long and capable of carrying two trailers, v. one for present cars. The G.M. car can be loaded from the side by means of a forklift, thus making for quicker and more flexible handling than the old-fashioned "circus loading," by which trailers were rolled up a ramp at the end of the car. American Car & Foundry, Bethlehem Steel, Pressed Steel Car and others are ready to manufacture piggyback equipment, and Pullman-Standard has had 500 inquiries about its piggyback flatcar. In Battle Creek, Mich. Clark Equipment Co. is making...
...rich and poor, high, middle-and lowbrow: those who get their kicks from the beauty of the horse and the excitement of the race, those who look only at the tote board, those who find in the combination of these attractions all the attributes of a poker game, circus, picnic, athletic contest, suspense movie, as well as an escape from the lesser, daily race in office or factory. For those who do not see it at all, they have no argument, merely sympathy...
...becoming more and more like a circus. They're giving to the public . . . four-year-old conductors in diapers, brought onto the stage with their-little chamber pots . . . Our civilization is going to end soon, and music even sooner. All this will be replaced by something else-perhaps concrete music, when it's made by composers, not engineers...