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Largely responsible for Circus ballyhoo is grizzled, bushy-browed Dexter Fellowes, Ringling pressagent. For 37 years Dexter Fellowes has been getting publicity for tent shows-a U. S. pressagent record. Business associates claim that he has the widest U. S. acquaintance. Even before the Circus got to town, his arrival was the signal for his friends of the press to wax waggish. He did not mind, for his policy is: let the newsmen write anything they like about...
...example, newsgatherer Alva Johnston reported in the Herald Tribune that Dexter Fellowes had spent the winter buying mountains "to be sawed up into precipices for the new granite billboards, ranging in size from 140 acres to a square mile...
Credulous laymen gasped when Dexter Fellowes was quoted as having said: "I snapped up 67 of the choicest Alps in the country, scattered from the coast range to the White Mountains. ... I started in California and intended to sneak all the best peaks before the trade got wind of my intentions, but before I had cleaned up the coast range the news was out. In the Sierra Nevadas the prices jumped from $50 a peak to $1,000 and I had to play one mountain against another to get them for anything like a reasonable figure...
...This statement was disputed at the University of Chicago. Declared Dexter Masters, editor of Phoenix: "About 40% of the men on the campus drink liquor. Women drink in almost the same proportion." In 1927 the university authorities complained to the U. S. Prohibition Unit against the ease with which students secured liquor...
Given $1,000,000, how many people would continue to work? Dr. Harry Dexter Kitson, psychologist and Professor of Education at Columbia Teachers' College pondered this question, determined to find out just how interested people are in their jobs. Most accessible for his experiment were teachers and nurses. To them he put this question: ''As the 100 degree point, think of that activity in which you would spend a major portion of your time if you had $1,000,000 and were not obliged to work. Then check the point on the scale which denotes your interest...