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Sick Star. Last year's Circus premiere was saddened by the absence of Lillian Leitzel, famed trapezist who was killed in Copenhagen (TIME, Feb. 23, 1931). This year's absentee was Goliath II, the 5,000-Ib. sea-elephant who, with his friend Goliath I, brought the lower animals back into their own at a time when they were threatened with being eclipsed by aerialists, acrobats and human freaks. Circus-man Ringling bought the two Goliaths in Hamburg four years ago, exhibited the larger and elder until he died, then brought forth his understudy, who by then weighed some...
...discovered that the sea elephant is just an overgrown species of seal (Mirunga leoninus or patagonica), carnivorous, mammalian, with a flexible proboscis, hind limbs so rudimentary that they look like a big tail; broad, flat for ward flippers for swimming and spanking the young. For Mr. Coolidge's pleasure Goliath I devoured 50 Ib. of herring. Six months later a shark got into his enclosure off Sarasota. bit a piece out of his neck, probably caused his death...
Last week great Radio Corporation of America, with its swarm of subsidiaries, was fighting for its life before the Federal Radio Commission. After years of industrial supremacy this Goliath of the air had been driven back against the wall by a little David called the Radio Protective Association ("Against Radio Monopoly"). At stake were 1,403 Federal licenses whereunder RCA's National Broadcasting Co. Inc., RCA Communications Inc., Radiomarine Corp. of America and RCA-Victor Co. Inc., did business...
...people from the far corners of the world." And there are birds & beasts without end -sprightly little dogs; pigeons colored like caster eggs; zebras that never quite learn their tricks; a sea lion that balances itself on one flipper; another that plays the "Star Spangled Banner"; the sea elephant Goliath who snorts like thunder and gulps adult fish on his motor truck; horses that wheel through handsome convolutions. As always, the Circus has something to please everybody. Boys who have grown too old to want to run away from home and carry water for the elephants may be inclined...
Assuming the national chairmanship of the Anti Gang Rule League, new and obscure crime prevention organization, Cartoonist Percy Lee Crosby (Skippy), took a sling shot at gangdom's Goliath. Said Chairman Crosby, famed for his personal newspaper advertisements against Prohibition (TIME, Feb. 16): "If invited, I will go to Chicago to meet Al Capone in his own territory, without gun permit or bodyguard...