Word: circusman
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There have been 13 sets of Siamese twins known to medical history. The original "Siamese" were Chang and Eng (really Chinese), born in Siam in 1811. They were taken out of Siam by a British merchant, exhibited by Circusman Barnum. After accumulating a small fortune, they married two sisters, took the name Bunker, settled down on a North Carolina farm, where they lived happily...
...Married. Circusman John Ringling North, 36, president of Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey; and French Cinemactress Germaine Aussey (Germaine Agassis), 30, whom he met while hunting talent in Europe last Christmas; in Philadelphia...
...Although Circusman North was out to beat his uncles at their own game (the tent this year is blue and the prop men wear berets), he was not so inexperienced as to change the basic rules of that game...
...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...