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Circus-minded Robert Kerr of Oklahoma found a niche in his political sideshow for others in the President's Cabinet and aides: "Bull Dog Charlie Wilson and his dog act−energetic bird dogs, howling kennel dogs"; "grinning Jim Hagerty and his most fascinating medicine puppet show"; "NoseDive Benson, the flexible man"; "Give-a-Million McKay, the give-away king"; "hapless Harold Stassen, the dying young man on the flying trapeze"; "the little strongman, Sherman Adams, the one Republican who won't run for Vice President. He declines to stop being President...
...nation. The planning for next week's Republican Convention seemed to fall off to a whisper. And even the extraordinary White House meeting of the President, the Secretary of State and congressional leaders on the Suez crisis (see Foreign Relations) took on some aspects of a sideshow because the top Democrats sandwiched it in between their caucuses in the Windy City...
...Sideshow Scramble. "How long, O how long," he cried, "shall these Republican outrages endure? How long, O how long will Americans permit the national welfare to be pounced upon at home and gambled abroad? How long, O how long will Republican roustabouts engage in a sideshow scramble for power and privilege?"* He dedicated the Democratic cause to the Greater Glory of God, invoked shades of Woodrow Wilson ("that great humanitarian and idealist") and Franklin Roosevelt ("He sat there in his wheelchair taller than his critics could stand"), called upon Americans to "rise up as one man and smite down those...
What sort of people become carnies? Usually, says Krassowski, carnies are the children or the relatives of carnies. Others achieve the status by accident. In one town a local carpenter challenged a sideshow wrestler to a bout; when he won, he decided to join the carnival for good. In another town a local auto mechanic was called in to help fix a Ferris wheel, and just never left. A college zoologist worked at a carnival one summer, resigned his job at the college, now runs a snake show. A California social worker is now reading palms in a "mitt camp...
...Rose Tattoo (Hal Wallis; Paramount), like the Tennessee Williams play from which it is adapted, is less a show, in a dramatic sense, than a sideshow-a gatherum of Pitchman Williams' less peculiar freaks. The principal exhibit is Serafina Delle Rose (Anna Magnani), a hearty peasant wench transplanted from Sicily to the Gulf Coast. Since the death of her husband, a small-time smuggler, she has turned into a sort of moral worm crawling in and out of his memory. She keeps his ashes in a gimcrack vase in their shanty parlor, and has long, sweaty daydreams about...