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...tanbark trail, the top status symbol is a private stateroom in the circus train. The occupant is always a center-ring star. As Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus last week moved out of winter camp just south of Sarasota, Fla., and began its 93rd national tour, one stateroom was reserved for the youngest person ever to have one-an 18-year-old girl...
Pulling himself up out of his wheelchair and hobbling down the hospital corridor on crutches, Mario Wallenda, 22, whose legs were paralyzed in a 35-ft. fall from the high wire at the Shrine Circus in Detroit eight months ago, announced that he would leave for Sarasota, Fla., to join his father, the head of the famous Flying Wallendas troupe. Two other members of the troupe were killed in the accident, but Mario has kept his nerve. "I am a circus man," he said, "and I want to get back into it even if I have to ride the high...
...little as $1,800 a year income can afford to live in United Church projects. The first one is scheduled for Vermilion, a resort town some 35 miles from Cleveland, with others to follow in Ohio. Still other United Church projects are planned for Baltimore, Santa Clara, Calif., Sarasota, Fla., and Walnut, Iowa...
...Church Control. That might spell grief, but New College has advantages. One is debonair Philip H. Hiss, 51, a prosperous Sarasota real estate man and now chairman of New College's board of trustees. A jack-of-all-arts who never went beyond prep school (Choate), Hiss satisfied his itch to be an architect by designing his own Sarasota home, a $200,000 waterfront edifice of ceramic brick and blue aluminum. In 1953, appalled at the state of Sarasota schools, Hiss wound up as the first Republican elected to the school board since Reconstruction days. Result: a Hiss-bred...
Crusader Hiss (a third cousin of Alger) went on to help Sarasota start the state's first program for gifted children and its first merit pay system for teachers, then threw himself into Sarasota's campaign for a college. It failed when the new Florida Presbyterian College went to St. Petersburg and Tampa got the state-run University of South Florida. But the Congregationalists' Board of Home Missions listened. With well-heeled Sarasota willing and able to raise $4,000,000, the Congregationalists have promised $600,000 over ten years, plus expert help-and a guarantee...