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...bloomed across Oklahoma last week. Out on the panhandle, Bermuda grass was turning from winter-brown to green. Beef cattle moved on to the fattening ranges of the Osage. In California, sunbathers headed for the long Pacific beaches. In Manhattan, city hicks swarmed into Madison Square Garden for the circus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Strength & Maturity | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...Secretary of Agriculture); to Norfolk (where he plumped for the inclusion of farm labor costs in parity prices) ; to Fremont (where he backed the Pick-Sloan plan for developing the Missouri River Valley, called for outlawing of the Communist party). He even found time to go to a Shrine circus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hubbub in Nebraska | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus opened its 1948 tour with a 33-day stand in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. The show's biggest hit: Unus of Vienna, "gravity -defying equilibristic wonder" who balances himself on his forefinger on a glass ball, then does a one-hand stand atop a cane while twirling hoops with his feet, his mouth and his free hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Apr. 19, 1948 | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...Circus (Sun. 2:15 p.m., CBS Television). Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey's big show, from Madison Square Garden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Apr. 12, 1948 | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

Having recently decided to run for President, Howdy adds a new "thingumajig" to his platform each week from viewers' suggestions (samples: cut-rate banana splits, more pictures in history books, free circus and rodeo admissions). Last week Howdy announced that he would send campaign buttons to any child who wrote in. Two days later, the first order of 5,000 buttons had been exhausted, and requests were still arriving by the sackful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Howdy | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

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