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...less pastoral soul, spring means the grand parade from South Station to the 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 »

...Game Hunter Osa Johnson announced that she will take along her mother, frail, silver-haired Mrs. Belle Lieghty, 73, of Chanute, Kans., on her next hunting trip into the wilds of Africa early in 1950. Their goal: bagging a gorilla to take the place of famed Gargantua, who died last month in Florida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Entrances & Exits | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...Died. Gargantua the Great, twentyish, for twelve years Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey's "frightfully fiendish" star gorilla; of double pneumonia, cancer and complications; in his $10,000 air-conditioned cage in Miami...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 5, 1949 | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...circus' Gargantua, who resembles the gentleman pictured above. Gargantua died Friday and will be flown to the Elis' Peabody Museum after an autopsy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Circus Gorilla To Enter Yale | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...Siragusa had to knock the roof off his plastics plant to lower the 40-foot press into place on its 6-ft.-thick concrete base. Finally, the hissing, throbbing monster (Dom calls it "Gargantua") was ready for trial. It pressed down on $6.50 worth of preheated blocks of phenol plastic and molded a complete 35-lb. cabinet, the biggest plastic "casting" made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gargantua's Baby | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

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