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...first boat was a rip-snorting gold rush into the Goodnews area of southwestern Alaska. In three days no less than 50 airplane flights were made from Anchorage, bearing prospectors to the sands of Kuskokwim Bay, where gold, platinum and palladium strikes had been reported. Overnight a tent city sprang up on the beach with all the trimmings of Klondike days, including a gaming brawl which required the attention of a Federal marshal and the ministrations of one Alice Forsgreen. "the lady barber" of nearby Bethel, who doubles as a nurse...
Turkish marriage processions, in which the bride rides to her husband's home on horseback, with servants carrying a large, tent-shaped veil, to shield both the lady and her mount from public view, are also shown...
...show had done so ever since 1909, three years after the Ringling and Barnum & Bailey outfits joined forces. With Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey still in Florida winter quarters last week, this tradition was shattered when Cole Bros.-Clyde Beatty moved into the Hippodrome, became the first important tent show in a generation to challenge "The Greatest Show on Earth" not only by playing New York, hitherto practically a Ringling monopoly, but playing it before Ringling got there, and playing it under a "permanent top" (a building as distinguished from a tent...
...appearance in Washington he informs me of the news from the home town that he has gleaned from traveling El Pasoans in every part of the country. He never fails to inquire about every El Pasoan he has ever seen in Washington. I have gone into his side show tent in half a dozen different cities but he has never failed to spot me, no matter how big the crowd, and greet me by name. I have been informed repeatedly of his doing the same for all other El Paso acquaintances of his, many of whom he knew only casually...
...briefly in romantic Capri, always a magnet for sentimental German tourists. In the interval, boastful henchmen talked openly of "forcing the resignation" of Jewish-Socialist French Premier Leon Blum, next "detaching" France from her Soviet alliance, and finally "restoring" Britain, Germany, France and Italy to comradeship under the big tent of II Duce's recently quiescent Four-Power-Pact (TIME, April 10, 1933 et seq.). They bragged as if there were of course enough Might handy to make possible so grandiose a reshuffle of the entire European situation...