Word: clown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spokane, Wash., Banker Harper Joy went on his usual summer vacation: with Cole Brothers Circus as a clown...
...McNeill, U. S. Intercollegiate champion: the Meadow Club tennis tournament, major tuneup for the National Singles championship; defeating (6-4, 6-3, 6-3) California's frivolous Frank Kovacs, who had drubbed U. S. Champion Bobby Riggs in the semifinals; at Southampton, L. I. After the conventional handshake, Clown Kovacs got McNeill to join him in a characteristically irreverent Kovacs pose...
...Wellington had had, vindicated as Queen in a summer-long session of the House of Lords, brash Caroline pushed her triumph too far. Forbidden to attend the Coronation, she tried to enter Westminster Abbey and was hooted by the crowd. Broken in spirit, perhaps understanding at last what a clown she had appeared for years, she failed rapidly. When news of Napoleon's death on St. Helena reached England, a satellite informed the King: "Sir, your greatest enemy is dead!" "Is she, by God?" cried Prinney, slapping his thigh...
...midnight, when the family trade has presumably departed, Gay New Orleans offers a third show called Mardi Gras Frolic. This is a somewhat bolder type of entertainment. The clown, for example, who earlier in the evening cavorted on a lamppost, now cavorts on a huge statue of a nude. Muriel Page does a dance symbolizing the moth & the flame, in which her wings get burned and the rest of her clothes are hastily doffed to prevent the fire from spreading. But the spirit of burleycue reaches its climax with a "Wonder Woman" named Carrie Finnell, who has no wings...
Last month union troubles threatened to kill American Jubilee off, but were finally ironed out. When the Fair opened last week, American Jubilee opened with it. Supercolossal it is: on a 300-ft. outdoor stage, in a blinding light, over 300 people march, waltz, sing, clown, wave flags, ride horseback, bicycles, automobiles, to the crashing of a tremendous band. Washington is inaugurated, Jenny Lind warbles, Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address, Lillian Russell & Diamond Jim Brady roll up to Rector's in a victoria, T. R. leads his Rough Riders, and in a stand-up-and-cheer finale...