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...circus train. Ringling's favorite saying was "I've got no use for midgets." He liked big, eye-catching things. He bought thousands of acres of land in Minnesota, Oklahoma, Wisconsin and Florida. He built a bank, a hotel and two huge, Italianate palaces in & around Sarasota, speculated in railroads and oil, was the first extensive collector of baroque paintings in America (because they were bigger than the paintings done in any other style). He lived high, wide & handsome, dressed like a raffish fashion plate, ate grossly, drank fine wines by the magnum and Jeroboam, kept pretty women...
...HOSPITALITY is lavish and memorable when he entertains in his uncle's old private railroad car, the Jomar, which now stands permanently in a barn at the circus winter quarters in Sarasota. The guests are warmed up in the car's pale green drawing room with North's own brand of Old-Fashioneds, then the party moves to the dining room, which is dominated by a large mural of Lady Godiva setting out on her ride. A French chef produces a four-or five-course meal (with three vintage wines), and the meal is rounded out with...
...Sarasota, Fla. is the winter training ground of "The Greatest Show on Earth." It can also boast an elegant sideshow: one of the nation's greatest collections of Baroque art, housed in Sarasota's salmon-pink John and Mable Ringling Museum. The public favorite at the museum is Paolo Veronese's Rest on the Flight into Egypt...
William Hegener, a Yale student on his way home to Sarasota, Florida, was aboard the ill fated plane...
Died. Mrs. Ida Ringling North, 76, only sister of the Ringling brothers who founded Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows Inc., mother of John Ringling North, the circus' current president; in Sarasota...