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...Boston Garden, with the elephants and the caliope leading the way, as the Greatest Show on Earth takes up its annual residence from May 8 to 13. Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey may have lost Gargantua to Yale, but the India rubber man, the tattooed lady, and the fire-eater go on forever. In addition, hundreds of performers defy death daily and the seals plays "God Save the King...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Numerous Musical, Novelty Events Enliven Springtime in Cambridge | 5/4/1951 | See Source »

...somebody "going duck hunting." The Mannix temperament was incorrigibly informal for Annapolis, and the Navy gave up at the end of his plebe year (1932). Dan Mannix found a new vocation for himself-and the makings of a lively little book-when he stopped to watch Flamo, the fire-eater, in a traveling carnival show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Life of a Carny | 4/2/1951 | See Source »

Agriculture said further that stilbestrol should be administered as a pellet thrust under the skin of the pullet's neck. If the head and neck were removed, according to instructions, before the broiler was marketed, no human chicken-eater would get the remains of the pellet. To avoid waste, the department suggested feeding the chicken head to ranch mink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Case of the Barren Mink | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

...manifestation of Communist aggression in Korea during these last six months," said Douglas, "is but the showing of the fin of the shark above the water. It is but a fraction of the striking power of the man-eater which lies beneath the surface. Day before yesterday it was Czechoslovakia; yesterday it was China; today it is Korea. What will it be tomorrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Fin of the Shark | 1/22/1951 | See Source »

...game fish, says Fishing, is "any fish caught on rod and line, putting up any fight, and not thrown back in disgust by the angler." That includes even the "detested, despised, and berated" carp, a "keen-brained root-eater" as hard to hook as a confirmed bachelor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How to Catch a Fish | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

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