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...courtroom scenes are enough to make a law student turn green with nausea. At one point Mrs. Bonner, in an attempt to prove that women are equal to men in every respect, brings in a circus woman who does back flips and lifts Mr. Bonner...

Author: By Brenton WELLING Jr., | Title: Adam's Rib | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...circus' Gargantua, who resembles the gentleman pictured above. Gargantua died Friday and will be flown to the Elis' Peabody Museum after an autopsy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Circus Gorilla To Enter Yale | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

This week, in a big circus tent ("the largest revival tent in history") in downtown Los Angeles, Evangelist Graham seemed to be wielding the revival sickle as no one since Billy Sunday had wielded it. Sponsored and financed by businessmen, ministers and such groups as Christian Endeavor, Youth for Christ, and the Gideons, 31-year-old Billy Graham arrived in September to conduct a four-week revival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Sickle for the Harvest | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...home, she is the kind of girl of whom one friend says: "She could fill Covent Garden every night in the week for a year, but she could walk through Picadilly Circus with a neon light around her head without one person saying, "There goes Margot Fonteyn.' " She has a flat just a block from Covent Garden, filled with period furniture ("mixed") and porcelain cats, spends much of her free time with her mother, a striking, silver-haired woman whom Margot and her friends have nicknamed "The Black Queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Coloratura on Tiptoe | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Divorced. William Veeck (rhymes with wreck), 35, canny Barnum of baseball, president of the Cleveland Indians since 1946; by Eleanor Raymond Veeck, thirtyish, onetime Ringling Bros, circus equestrienne; after almost 14 years of marriage, three children; in Tucson, Ariz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 7, 1949 | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

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