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...only $250 a week when in 1935 he formed the Cole Brothers-Clyde Beatty Circus. At the height of his fame, a year later, he was earning $3,500 a week. But soon the time of magic would end. "Suckers may still be born every minute," mourned a circusman, "but TV gets them first...
...hotel, with a private balcony overlooking the water for every student. When Architect I. M. Pei completes the first phase of a $15 million building program, students will transfer to dorms that are equally inviting. Designed to complement the main building, which is the mansion that once belonged to Circusman Charles Ringling, the low-lying residences are grouped around a central plaza and interior courts. Pairs of students will share carpeted study-bedrooms (with bath) opening onto secluded patios...
...Canned Patriotism. New College has an option on 60 waterfront acres, including its first building - a 20-room, pink marble mansion built in 1927 by Circusman Charles Ringling, which adjoins the famed public art museum founded by Ringling's brother John. Using this nucleus, the trustees plan an eventual 200-acre campus, designed by top U.S. architects. Hiss himself is donating his own home for President Baughman...
...cost of moving from town to town has become prohibitive. On top of that, today's children, surfeited with TV tinsel, no longer quicken to the real-life roar of lions, the aerialist's heart-stopping plunge. "Suckers may still be born every minute," epitaphed a circusman in Manhattan last week, "but TV gets 'em first...
Chamber of Commerce president, reminded an Adrian Chamber of Commerce meeting that his company, now the second biggest U.S. independent copper and brass fabricator, had been founded on land given by Circusman P. T. Barnum in Connecticut. Said he: "We knew how to handle elephants." After the meeting, Steinkraus started organizing a plantwide White Elephant Club to get the employees to work cutting costs, stepping up production...