Word: jumbo
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...best that can be said is that it is not unconstitutional will cause no enthusiasm among Republicans . . ." or anybody else whom Mr. Landon wishes to draw into the elephant's paddock in the next few years. A renaissance of the Republican party can occur only when and if Jumbo can get down to business and stop the tempting but childish political pastime of twisting the donkey's tail...
...another Chicago newspaper bravo, wrote The Front Page in 1928 and thereby hit professional pay dirt. During a fling with MacArthur in film production, a venture that improved their backgammon game but not their bank accounts, the pair found time to write the book for Billy Rose's Jumbo. Hecht confessed once that the drama was not a suitable medium for him ("I've never been able to compact an idea into three acts"). Last July he referred to Hollywood fame as "a load of clams" at which "a dreaming of his dithyrambs, our gallant Thespis thumbs...
Amid the squalor and duress of Britain's most "depressed area" (the South Wales mining district) a brilliant young physician, Andrew Manson, took his first medi-cal appointment. He scorned the mumbo-jumbo of outworn textbooks, went to the unprofessional lengths of helping dynamite a sewer at dead of night because he knew it responsible for a typhoid epidemic. Again & again in his crusading zeal "never to take anything for granted'' in Medicine he was thwarted by the indifference of senile or mediocre colleagues. An original thesis on the causes of lung infection in miners...
...elephant since Phineas Taylor Barnum's Jumbo has had a legitimate claim to the distinction of being more famous than all others of the species. And no world-wide tabulation is kept of ages of elephants, which live to be about 120. But Babe, aged more than 100, may well have been the oldest in captivity. And as for fame, certain it is that she trouped with Jumbo, worked for and outlived Showman Barnum, the Ringlings, and generations of circusgoers...
...when the Texas Centennial fair got under way at Dallas, Doctor Rose was called in by Fort Worth and encouraged, with a contract paying $1,000 a day for 100 days (TIME, June 8, 1936), to unleash his imagination upon a rival fair. Mr. Rose carted his musical circus Jumbo down to Fort Worth and set up four or five other super-spectacles, including Sally Rand and her fans. So well satisfied were the city fathers of Fort Worth that they signed up Doctor Rose on the same terms for a second Frontier festival, which opens late this month. Lately...