Word: circusman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...executive vice president, young John Ringling North, nephew of the late John ("Three-Ring") Ringling, was inspecting the circus' Sarasota, Fla. winter quarters. Imprudently disregarding warning signs, he leaned against the bars of Gargantua's cage to rest. Gargantua reached through, got no toe hold but wrenched Circusman North's left arm into the cage, bit & wrung it until Trainer Richard Kroner, pounding the gorilla with an iron stake, distracted its slow attention...
Divorced. Mrs. Emily Haag Buck Ringling; by Circusman John Ringling, 71, last of the five founding brothers; in Sarasota, Fla. Grounds: nagging, "an ungovernable temper...
Sued for Divorce. Mrs. Emily Haag Buck Ringling; by Circusman John Ringling; in Sarasota, Fla. Charges: vilification, physical violence which caused the pulse of Mr. Ringling, ill with thrombosis, on occasion to rise from...
...Ringling will travel with it, to learn more of the family business. It is a Ringling tradition for some member of the family to accompany the show. Old John Ringling, last of the founding brothers, has been too ill to do so for the past two years. As a circusman, Robert Ringling will spend his first season helping the publicity department. In his spare moments he hopes to do some work with the Ringling musical clowns...
...Circusman John Ringling had to admit newsmen to his suite at Coney Island's Half Moon Hotel, hard by the area which was destroyed by fire last week, before they were convinced that he had not had his legs amputated. Angrily he explained that an infected blister on his right instep had been treated, that was all. Now he and his wife had come for a fortnight's rest as guests of his good friend Samuel W. Gumpertz, president of Coney Island's Board of Trade. As for the amputation story, which had already gotten into print...