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...Robert Emmett Lusk. chairman of the board and chief executive officer. Benton & Bowles...
Under the apprehensive eye of a more practiced Pagliacci, Emmett Kelly, 63, Novice Clown Debbie Reynolds, 30, went through her droopy-trousered paces at a Los Angeles premiere of the International Super Circus. Other show business talents ranging from Sammy Davis Jr. to Jayne Mansfield also donated their services to the benefit performance in support of a cause peculiarly appropriate for Hollywood: a clinic for emotionally disturbed children...
...sideshow, but it is considered discriminatory to call them by that name any longer, and the placards that identify them are like something out of a natural history museum. Gone is the little house that caught on fire; gone are the Living Statues; gone is the calliope; gone is Emmett Kelly, Gargantua, and Jo Jo, the Dog-Faced Boy. But gone, most of all, is the innocent wonderment of the pretelevision era-the squeals of delicious terror, the yelps of helpless laughter-that used to rock the Big Top before Howdy-Doody came on the scene...
...eyes! Look at the torment in Sweden's greatest dramatist, Strindberg, as Norway's greatest artist, Edvard Munch, captured it; or the intensity in Shahn's Freud; or the burning glance of Stuart Davis' James Joyce; or the clown's proverbial subdued sadness in Loren Maclver's Emmett Kelly...
...university press, started a lecture series that lures such literary lights as W. H. Auden and T. S. Eliot. He also started the Texas Quarterly, which appears next month with an all-English issue featuring such authors as Henry Green and Angus Wilson, a cover by Punch Cartoonist Rowland Emmett. (An all-Texas issue is in the works...