Word: circusing
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Emilio Razzore had made his circus his life. Like his father and grandfather, who started the circus in Rio 112 years ago, he had toured the dusty towns and cities of South America and the Caribbean, with his five clowns, his dancing bears, and the chimpanzees that rode bicycles. He had tigers and monkeys, and trained dogs. Best of all, he had two beautiful acrobats: his daughter Dolinda and his niece Guillermina...
...Emilio had decided that it was time to leave the circus and settle down. Colombia was the place he had picked. It was at Girardot on the Magdalena River that "Nero," the troupe's mangy, "dangerous" lion had turned out to be a lioness and given birth to three cubs. And it was at Medellin that Emilio's niece had died of typhoid; the show had gone on, even on her funeral day. With the money Emilio's wife had put away, they would buy a house in Bogotá and become solid citizens...
After a last performance in Cuba, Emilio put the circus aboard the ancient, 145-foot Honduran ship Euzkera, then took a plane to Cartagena to see to Colombian bookings and the house in Bogotá. The Euzkera had only two cabins. But the 46 members of the troupe managed somehow, even with all their animals and gear...
...week's end Emilio finally learned the full bitterness of his loss. Down with the Euzkera had gone all the animals and circus equipment (uninsured), and 37 members of the troupe. Among the missing: Emilio's wife, children and niece. Sobbed Emilio Razzore: "The sea has swallowed up my whole life...
Died. William Nissley McNair, 68, fiddle-playing onetime mayor of Pittsburgh (1933-36), whose unstatesmanlike didos made a circus of municipal affairs; of a heart attack; in St. Louis. McNair once dismissed all violators of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Act ("They had committed no crime," he said, "except competing in the rotten liquor business with Governor Pinchot"), failed in a Cromwellian move to dissolve a newly elected city council, resigned in a huff when the council balked at confirming his appointees...