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...wonder. Tiny Tim is a gentle soul who happens to be the most bizarre entertainer this side of Barnum & Bailey's sideshow. His specialties are pop songs from early decades of the century, and his performances flicker with a genuine talent for re-creating the styles of such stars of the era as Arthur Fields, Gene Austin, Ruth Etting and Russ Columbo. But Tiny dismisses the notion that he does imitations. "The spirits of singers whose songs I do are living within me," he insists. All this is pathetically easy to mock, yet Tiny's total absorption...
...issue from the early '50's reveals how politically phlegmatic the Globeused to be. As late as 1956, the front page of the Globecarried almost nothing but local murders, fires, accidents, strikes and suicides, with an emphasis on the bizarre. A typical lead articles tells of a sideshow performer who walked into a Pittsburgh police staion and "told a weird and tearful story of having shot to death her roustabout lover on a lonely Kentucky road...
...BENNY SPECIAL (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Lucille Ball, Johnny Carson, Ben Blue and Paul Revere and the Raiders join Jack on the midway for "Jack Benny's Carnival Nights," featuring cameo appearances by Bob Hope, Dean Martin, Danny Thomas and the Smothers Brothers in the guise of assorted sideshow performers and carny characters...
...Roman cops were not so sure. When the visitors, lacking a table to sign papers on, began moving a heavy stone slab around to make do, a dozen carabinieri came on the run to halt what looked like desecration of a national monument. When the sideshow ended at last, "the Greatest Show on Earth" passed to its new owners...
...fact, neither the U.S. nor the Soviet resolution seemed likely to be adopted, and there was talk of a compromise proposal by a group of small powers, perhaps this week. Whatever the outcome, the U.N. session seemed almost surrealistically detached from geopolitics, a sideshow that serves at best as a strainer separating politicking from Realpolitik...